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Palacios, Texas, February 1959

Date of account
1959-02
Location
Palacios, Texas
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 16Feb 59 Palacios, Texas 口 Probabiy Bolloon 口 Possibly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aircroft Local DKGroundVisuel Ground-Radar 口 Probably Aircraft 16/12402 D Air-lntereept Redar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT- D Ai~Vi suol 5. PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomieol Arcturus 口Y OxProbably Astronomicel 口 Possibly Astronomicel -O.No Civilian 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficiont Dote for Evaluotion 口 Unkno wn 10min 2 S 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Bright glowing red obj moving at a The cuase for this sighting is speed almost as fast as a shooting star. probably aberration of the light Later a mass of very small lights, white as from the star arcturus by the the stars, but smaller, appeared vith the vindow screen, coupled with normal red obj moving clockwi

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