South Portland, Maine, August 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-08
- Location
- South Portland, Maine
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source page 1
Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 4August 1956 South Portland, Maine 口 Probably Balioon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon Local RxGround-Visual Ground-Rador 口 Was Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft GMT. 04/0722Z D AirVisual Air-lntorcopt Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE OYos 口 Was Astroromica! 口 Probably Astronomicol XXXNo Military 口 Possibiy Asfronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OP OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation still in sight 口 Unknown one NE to South 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One round, large, white 1ight. Object Although wind direction does was moving northeast then turned not correlate exactly to move- south slow. obdect still in observancp ment of object,sighting is at time of report. observed visually evaluated as balloon. and through binoculars. ATIC FORM 329
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