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Avon Park, Florida, October 1957

Date of account
1957-10
Location
Avon Park, Florida
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 10073 RECORD CARD 12.CONCLUSIONS 2.LOCATION 1.DATE 口 Wus Bolloon 口 Probobly Balloon Avon Park,Florida 口 Possibly Balloon 18 0etober 1957 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION D Wes Aireroft 3.DATE-TIME CROUP Ground.Visual Ground-Radar 口 Probubly Aireroft 1950 口 Possibly Airerat Local. AirVisuol Air-lntarcapt Radar GMT_19/0050Z C.K Was Astronomicol Meteor 6.SOURCE 口 Probobly Astronomical 5.PHOTOS 口 Possibly Astronomical OiYes Military .ONo 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 口 Insuficient Dato for Evaluation 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 口 Unknown SW one few seconds 11.COMMENTS 1O. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING Probable meteor sighting. Stationary object with "in conter" white light. Object itself was red dish in color. After a few seconds it moved out of sight very fast.Obj had a tail train similar to jet on take off. Second observer seemed to t think light just went out rather than moving out of sight.

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