Project 10073 Record Card — Miami, Florida, 20 February 1956

On 20 February 1956, at 1950Z, a civilian witness in Miami, Florida, observed a single, wingless, silver, blimp-shaped object at a very high altitude. The witness, identified in the report as a sales manager, observed the object through binoculars for approximately thirty seconds as it traveled from the north to the southeast before fading over the horizon. The report was processed under Project 10073. Military authorities, specifically the 650th ACWRON, investigated the incident and noted that there was no radar contact. However, they concluded that the lack of radar data was not significant, as the nearest radar site was approximately 250 miles away from the location of the sighting. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency was that the sighting was possibly generated by a high-flying aircraft operating out of the Miami International Airport. Weather conditions at the time were reported as clear with good visibility of 18 miles and low scattered to broken clouds at a 2,000-foot base.