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Approx 200 Mi south of New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1957

Date of account
1957-11
Location
Approx 200 Mi south of New Orleans, Louisiana
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Approx 2o0 Mi southof Wos Balloon 5 November 1957 New Orleans,Louisiana Probably Bailoon 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possibiy Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP Loel-0510-0521 hrs Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar 口 Was Aireroft 口 Probably Aireraft GMT AirVisuol Air-lntercept Radar 口 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE DX Was Astronomicol Me teor OYes 口 Probobly Astronomicol Coast Guard Ship 口 Possibly Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS9.COURSE oxotho Spurious R return separate & 口 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation approx ll minutes four variable 口 Unknown 10. BRIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Report from skipper of Sabego that Visual sightnng: Meteor. 3 contacts made on radar of unknown Radar: False Targets. object, also one visual sighting. Press & Tv implied that it was one VisuaI sighting at 052lz. object insight for 3 seconds in horizon

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