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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 4 April 1956 | 2. LOCATION | McKinney, Texas | 12. CONCLUSIONS  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 1515 GMT 04/2115Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Ground-Visual ☑ Telescope ☐ Air-Visual ☐ | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical ☐ Other UNIDENTIFIED ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☑ Unknown  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 6 hours | 8. NUMB…

HAI
Cat. 17
6

McKinney, Texas
May 14, 1956

Director of Air Force Intelligence
Army Air Force
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Attached hereto is a sketch of an unidentified flying object seen over this city, or apparently over it, on April 4, 1956. Efforts have been made to identify the UFO, hence the deady of sending this report.

The UFO was called to my attention, as I am the local Weather Bureau observer, and I noted it at 3:15 P.M. on the afternoon of the date named above. It was apparently ten degrees northwest of the north from McKinney, and I at first thought it a weather radiosonde ball…

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The UFO was so high that it glowed in the sunlight long after dark on the earth's surface. There were some cirrus clouds in the upper air about 7:00 P.M., and it was far above them. I had ascertained their height to be 11,000 feet. My rough calculations may have been far off, of course, and I think they possibly were. I am inclined to believe the UFO was at least 100 miles high, as I have talked to observers as far west as 100 miles and north 50, and all them say it appeared overhead to them.

I have contacted the Weather Bureau, the Air Force bases at Carswell Base and Perrin Field an…

Unidentified flying object observed over McKinney, Texas, April 4, 1956. Redrawn from original by Capt. Roy F. Hall.

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Observed by , McKinney, Texas
April 4, 1956, 4:00 P.M.
Observation equipment: 6"" reflector telescope, 55x to 200x mag.

The UFO presented the same face, did not revolve or rotate, from 3:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M., when it disappeared in the darkness.