Donaldson AFB, South Carolina, August 1959
- Date of account
- 1959-08
- Location
- Donaldson AFB, South Carolina
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 17Aug_59 Donaldson AFB,South Carolina 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aircraft Local. DGround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Probably Aircraft GMT_17/06002 Air-intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft AirVisual 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomical Meteor Yes 口 ProbablyAstronomical Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical D-No 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 InsufficiontData forEvaluation 口 Unknown 15 secs l exploding NE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Ball or streak of fire observed for 10 Characteristics of bolide observed sec at whieh time it exploded and faded out. to explode present.Case listed as a Obj had level flight fm SE to the NE until meteor sighting. it explcded. Slight trail of fire prior to the explosion. After explosion obj arched
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