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China Lake, California, October 1956

Date of account
1956-10
Location
China Lake, California
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 5 0ctober 1956 China Lake,California 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Bolioon 3.DATE·TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF O3SERYATION 2248PST Locol. XO Ground-Visuol 口 Wus Aircraft D Ground-Radar 口 Probobly Aircroft CMTC6/06482 D Air-lntercspt Rador 口 Possibly Aircraft D AirVisuol 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Wus Astronomicol Meteor GYos Probobly Astronomicol 口 Possibly.Astronomical XONo Ciyilian 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficient Doto for Evaluation 口 Unknown about 9 seconds N toS 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Observer states he submitted roport A/C ruled out due to duration. apparenily after reading Keyhoe's bool Observation most probably meteor FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE.ObSer sighting although light reflectiois ved a row of luminous "things"that on birds is also a possibility. tra

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