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Fairbanks, Alaska, December 1956

Date of account
1956-12
Location
Fairbanks, Alaska
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 白 Was Balloon 29 December1956 Fairbanks,.Alaska Probably Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possibly Balloon Local KRround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft GMT. 30/06567 D Air-Visual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aireraft 5..PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical QYes Tower Dperator 口 Probably Astronomical XNo Civilian two pilots 口 Possibly Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE Elare arc to right 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 2-5 seconds 口 Unknown auo and downwarld 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One object, circular, size of pea. This sighting was determined Color red,bluish-white, green w/ to be a flare fired by persons tail. unknown; by the territorial. police and by others. ATICFORM329(REV 26SEP 52)

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