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Palatka, Florida, July 1961

Date of account
1961-07
Location
Palatka, Florida
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Record summary

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 25Ju161 Palatka,Florida 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Wos Boiloon 4.TYPE OF O3SERVATION 口 Probably Balloon Local Night 口 Posxibly Balloon OGround.Visual OGround-Rador GMT 口 Was Aircraft 5.PHOTOS AiVisuol 口 Probobly Airerof! Air-lntorcopt Radar 6.SOURCE 口 ONO 口 Was Astronomical Civilian 口 Probobly Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 口 Possibly Astronomical 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE othINReliable Rerort 口 Insufficisnt Dota for Evaluation 10. BRiEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING Identica.l rePOrt 口 Unknowm in on l2 Jul fm same city apparently by turned n.comMENtsProbabiy prank. Iaenticairepor small childron. and inconsisteneies of possible cause such as objt separating and joining togthei again and varied movements which do not conform to knowm flight patterns lead t conelusion of prank by these youngsters ATICPORM329(REV26SEP52)

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