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Rome, Italy, August 1963

Date of account
1963-08
Location
Rome, Italy
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 -22Augist1963 Rome,Italy Was Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Probably Bailoon A.TYPEOFOBSERVATION Possibly Balloon Loc2132 Ground-Visuai Ground-Radar 口 Wos Aircroft GMT3/1932 D Probabiy Aircrofr Air-Visuol Air-lntercopt Radar 5.PHOTOS Possibiy Aireruit 6.SOURCE CYos 口 WasAstronomical ONo civilian 口 Probably Astronomical 口 PossiblyAstronomical 7.LENGTHO OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE DKInsufficientDato forEvaluation 25 seconda one loward Observer Unknowm 10.BRIEPSUMMARY OF SIGHTING Obj shaped like a hat.observed in from of car 11.COMMENTS through windshield.Duration 25 seconds.Objs Report in Italian and some detail possi- approached witness. Disappeared by rising bly lostin translation.Since objeet quickly.Did not pass in front of on behind wes observed in front of the car and anything.Phosphorescent cloudlike.Outline moving

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