Rockledge Florida — February 1960

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Keywords: oatetims, 01s5erv, lchtino, earocl, bnllooll, asttorromic, hrillian, werlnesday, calter, klecl, inltt, nnonncement, lender, ollth, rfnesclay, torning, rrnbora, tmerd, illiantl, uurnbcr, pnjnt, jnver, hockhd, lhings, jlllhwnrd
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PROJECT 1r /'3 RECORD CARD 3. OATETIMS CROUP 7. LENGTH OP 01S5ERV.\TION 2. LOCATION Roc l:le! tt~e :~ Florida lYPE OF OBSERVATION Ao Ground-Vi suol 8. NUMBER Or OSJECTS 10. BRIEF SUMMA~V Of' ~lCHTINO 11. COMMENTS 611J~.,r Ir .... : ; in: objects a t. gr~at al t l tucJ.e Prl>L:J.lJl,;-birds. h~a~ ln~ GJ herly dtrec~ion. Ap~earocl ~o b~ for.-.:ation. Br i l i.e.:1t vrhit e color. ATIC FORM 3Z9 (~.!V ~6 !lEi 5~) CO)'ICLUSIO~S Wa~ Balloon Probably B'lll.:x>n Po:osibly Bnllooll Was Airctoft Pro bob I y Ai rcroft Po$~ibly Aircraft Was Astronomi col Probubly A stronomlcol Possibly Asttorromic'JI O:her Dil'd S Insufficient Doto for !:valuation t"p in the sky! It':; A il;tlt-r\olen or ~tJ hrillian Uy- '"'"~'t~ oujects -at apparently r ,\' high altitude-moving slow- . , .south Werlnesday morning - t: .,.'s U1e report. fhe calter, a resident of Rock- h:.:n~e who n~ked that her name n ot. 1 . ust:>d, said what she saw while , nving south on tne rive r road i n i:'h:klecl~e llbout 10 a. m. were cl.-.(inltt>l v not planes. What they w<re was what she wanted to What she wanted to know The Tri~une could not tell her. so t hi:i . nnonncement is b Y way of a Did anyone else see the long, ::;lender, ~;ollth-movi.:tg objects yes- !nl:ty morning? H :.o. qive the paper o. call. Our ti.vin! ..;aucer file hasn't had a n ~ntrv in quite a while. 0een .Jll ljJ(v ' J!; I lll'Cll r<'t.:c i ved con<:-.: :-n in;.{ those ' j'.thin.'!:.'' :t:~n movJ'l!{ throo~h thl' ;,,,\. last Wl'rfnesclay l~torning bv I' u WJc:l: lto;::t-n::.td~nt. .1 Tlw c~t!tet H'J.VIf s, ,J(;;o i:rnrn I . \~omt-rJ, c"rrnbora ted tn i!tmerd I th~ iirst r->i;!hting ... that js , lhc } nb;ccts app~::ared b t'illiantl.v white, \\ e r" moving generally south, and J uurnbcr~cl ~tbout si~. ! ?nt ::,,1w the obJects frnm a pnJnt n bit :.;oulh qf the !\ler!'itt lr b land Po.,t Office the other from the :;outh Jnver Drive, nl:'nr wht..re ~ the Hockhd!:(e woman said sh~:: hat! en the wnite " lhings" movin)J Jlllhwnrd . .The Tl'ihvne has done . htt l"lf i j ';il<;_cl~in~. hut sl.ill can offer no c "ft:'rte ans.v""r as to whal the ' "umrlentJfied ftv:n~ objects" were. It Wfls ltarne'l that a number of rr;e ba!Joon s had bPen released '~vc~al rlays . pr~vious to the ' :-.l~htrn~s from WaUo9s [.;land, Va . And :>orne say such balloons be-I C'<me elon~ated when bein,!! cnr- t hi~h altit ude by a stromt I wmcl ... but whoever heard uc h<d frliJns flyi n~ i n forma tinn ?ur Cilp:.: Canaveral man says ' h\: : hear d no reports o f a ny such "thin::!s" th,ing south w~dnt!:-:day ... or uny other t