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Wethersfield, Essex, England, October 1956

Date of account
1956-10
Location
Wethersfield, Essex, England
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Record summary

Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 12.CONCLUSIONS 2.LOCATION 1.DATE 口 Was Balloon Engl lanc 口 Probably Balloon Wethersfield, Essex, 口 Possibly Balloon 6October 1956 4.TYPE OF OSSERVATION 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Was Aircraft night X Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Probobly Aircroft Local 口 D AinVisuol DAir-lntorcapt Radar GMT. x Was Astronomical Metoor 6.SOURCE 口 Probably Astronomicol 5.PHOTOS OYs 口 Possibly Astronomicol Military XDNo 9.COURSE 口 Otho!. 8.NUMBER OP OBJECTS 口 Insufficiant Dato for Evaluation 7.LENGTH OP O3SERVATION 口 Unknown notrptd one exploding notrenorted 11.COMMENTS 10. BRIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Objeet apparently bolide,which Visual sighting of single object which exploded.Case evaluated as a exploded but then kept going with less meteor sighting on this limited brilliancy until it faded fm view. data. ATIC FORM 329 (RZV 26 SEP S2)

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