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Near Hopa, Turkey, September 1958

Date of account
1958-09
Location
Near Hopa, Turkey
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 1.DATE 2..LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon ll September l958 Near Hopa,Turkey Probably Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP Possibly Balloon 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local 口 Was Aircraft RGround-Visual Ground-Rodor 口 Probobly Aircraf! 11/2155Z GMT. D Ai~Visual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.·PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical OYes 口 Probably Astronomical Milicary 口 Possibly Astronomical RNo 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE Othor Gi fire 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unk no wn 6minutes clusters NA 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Projectile left ground & proceeded Time lapse & duration of each over water at elev of approx 3ooft. series typical of tracers fm As obj left round it soparated into large guns. cluster of 6-9 bright red fireball objs which were vixible approx 4 secs then disappeared.Three series of these objs at 30 s

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