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Ridgewood, New York, December 1956

Date of account
1956-12
Location
Ridgewood, New York
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon December 1956 Ridgewood, New York 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION XXGround-Visual 口 Was Aircraft Local Ground-Radar 口 Probably Aircraft GMT04/1910Z D AirVisuol Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical DYes 口 Probably Astronomicol No Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE RX Other chaff 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown 1/2 to 5 seconds one vertical 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS One snowball to disk shaped pearly Chaff dropeed fm B-47 a/c with white obj, size of a medium shaped fighter interceptor action in orange at arm's length. obj was the area. Repotted by 26 AD Sec noted as falling from the vapor tor on this date. Case evalua- trails of a jet a/c being intercep

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