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Portland, Oregon, June 1956

Date of account
1956-06
Location
Portland, Oregon
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 26 June 1956 Portland,Oregon 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Eround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local 口 Probably Aircraft GMT 27/0500Z DAirVisuol Air-Intercept Radar Rx Possibly Aireroft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomicol DYes 口 Probably Astronomical OKNo Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Orhor. 口 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation 口 Unknown approx one minute one StoN 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One ball shape (star-like) object the Object appeared to be heading size smaller than a pencil eraser toward an airport and therefore held at arms length, color of light could possibly be an a/c (jet) blue. Object was sighted for approx circling in the area. An a/c one minute. (F-89D) was flying in the area

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