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Plano, Illinois, October 1956

Date of account
1956-10
Location
Plano, Illinois
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 12. CONCLUSIONS 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 口 Was Bulloon 口 Probobly Balloon 16 0ctober 1956 Plano,lllinois 口 Possibly,Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aircraft XO Ground-Visuol O Grovnd-Rodor Locol 口 Probobly Airerof? 口 Possibly Aircraft 17/00247 D AirVisual D Air-lntercopt Rador GMT. 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical S.PHOTOS 口 Probobly Astronomicol OYes 口 Possibly Astronomical Civilian XONo 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS D.xlnsufficient Doto for Evaluation 口 Unknown one unknown still in sght 11.COMMENTS 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING Insufficient data for analysis. One round red,orange and green object the size of a baseball at arm's length Flashing lights were noted in connectiqn with the sighting. Object was seen high·in the sky visually and was still in sight at the time of the initial report. ATIC FORM 329 (RKV 26 SEP S2

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