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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  2 March 1958 | Tampa, Florida | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local OCT 03/0143Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft  |
|  5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE Civilian | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION about 15 minutes | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one | 9. COURSE Rising  |
|  10. BRIEF S…

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|  ORIGIN OF BASIC Office of Program Planning, Weather Bureau | DATE  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
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|  DATE 12 Ma 58 |   |   | TYPE Office Memo |   |   |   |   |   | NO.  |   |   |   |
|  SUBJECT Unidentified Flying Object  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|  ROUTING  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |…

OTHER THAN THOUGHT

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : Director of Intelligence
USAF, Att: AFCIN 1A1

FROM : Office of Program Planning,
Weather Bureau

SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Object

DATE: May 12, 1958
AO-1

As discussed with Major Fountain of your office, this date, attached
herewith are copies of correspondence with our Tampa office, concern-
ing an unidentified flying object.

J. H. Eberly

Att.

STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
0-5

TO : MIC, WEAS, Tampa, Fla. DATE: April 10, 1958

FROM : Chief, F&SR Division

SUBJECT: RAWARC

Dear Bob:

Will you please check with the observer who was on duty at the time the attached report of "unidentified flying object" was transmitted on RAWARC and obtain details of basis for the report. Note that the report indicates tower sighted object but that according to JAX the TPA tower later denied sighting such object.

E. M. Vernon

Attachment.

(313 persons) - March 2, 1958 - Sunday

COPY

ALL CKT DE TPA
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT LANDED ON AIRPORT NORTH END 2050E
AND THEN TOOK OFF. TOWER REPORTS WAS ORANGE COLORED WITH BRIGHT
LIGHT WAS OBSERVED BY TOWER WITH BINOCULARS.
WAS OBSERVED IN AIR BY 3 W.B. PERSONELL. MANEUVERED LIKE
HELICOPTER BUT NO NOISE.

TPA DE WBC IS THAT A TRUE STATEMENT QQ
YES TRUE 3/1/58
OK TU MUCH

ANY IDEA OF WHAT THE SPEED WAS QQ
DIDNT SEEM FAST
TU
MUST BE FROM LI L ABNER

WBC

WBC A JAX
A CHECK WITH TPA TWR INDICATES NO UNUSUAL OBJECT
ON THE TPA FIELD.
RHOTEN

JAX A WBC ROGER THX MUCH

This report is over 2 1/2 months old and
is too old to initiate a…

STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

DATE: April 17, 1958

TO: Mr. Ferry

FROM: Mr. Francis

SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Object.

1. Date of occurrence was Sunday evening, 8:45 to 9:00 P.M., E.S.T., March 2, 1958, not March 1.

2. Meteorological factors and pilot reports indicated severe, possibly extreme turbulence over Tampa and vicinity. Turbulence in varying degrees moderate to "heavy", according to pilot's reports, occurred throughout the afternoon and evening on March 2. The stability index, on the Tampa 0000Z, March 3, R/S observation was minus 3. This R/…