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Kirksville, Missouri, January 1962

Date of account
1962-01
Location
Kirksville, Missouri
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD STATES-S AFER-FUGE 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 22 Jan 62 Kirksville,Missouri Was Balloon Probabiy Balloon 口 Possi bly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION 1245 Ground-Visual 口 Was Aircraft Local Ground-Rodar 口 Probably Aircraft 22/18452 AirViswal 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT. 口 Air-lntercept Radar 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical 口Y Military 口 Probably Astronomical 口 Possibly Astronomical CNo 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation 1hr5min one varied 口 Unknawn 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Object appeared on radar at 1/2 the size/or Fron the perfornance of the target and strength/of the normal a/e return. There was wind reports it appears that the most only one objeot and was measured at 7e,ooo' and logical explanation for the target is 65 miles.The object ascended to 8o,ooothen t

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