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Crane, Indiana, October 1956

Date of account
1956-10
Location
Crane, Indiana
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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

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PROJECT 1C073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 11 0ctober 1956 Crane,Indiana 口 Probabiy Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF O3SERVATION Locol 2245 Ground.Visuol Ground-Rodor 口 Was Aircraft 口 Probably Aircrofi 12/0345Z D AirVisuol Air-Intercopt Rador 口 Possibiy Aircraft GMT. 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical OYs 口 Probably Astronomicol aNo Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical Exaggeration.dueto 7.LENGTH OF O3SERVATION S.NUMBER OP OaJECTS 9.COURSE uxothoangoestibilify 口 Insufficiont Dcta for Evoluotion 口 Unknown 30 seconds one unknown 1O. BRIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS 18 year old youth rptd large, glowing No low flying a/c in vicinity.No object red or amber in color observed objs rptd by radar.Sighting 75 to lo0 ft in air.Claims objects observed adjacent to us naval 40 feet in diameter. depot.Not rptd by others.Signi- ficant that youth's

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