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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 18 February 1956 | 2. LOCATION | Orly AF France  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local GMT 18/2020Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☑ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar ☑ Ground-Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Military  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 4 hrs radar 30 mins visual | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | one  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |   | Round dot (like a star) size of star. Color changed from white to red to green and back to white. Color changed required 30 seconds for each. Definit…

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|  ORIGINATING AGENCY | REPORT NO. | PAGE 2 OF 3 PAGES  |
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|  465th Troop Carrier Group, Med APO 253, N.Y., N.Y. | IR 2-56 |   |

1. Description of the object:
a. A round dot (like a star in the sky).
b. Size of an ordinary star in the sky.
c. The color changed from white to red to green and back to white. Observers could not recall the exact sequence of these color changes, but stated that the light changes slowly merged from one to another, taking about 30 seconds for each change. The observers further stated that it defi…

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|  COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | France Multi | REPORT NO. | IR 2-56 | Current Name | HF724166  |
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AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

|  PLACE OF ORIGIN | France  |
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|  AGENCY OF ORIGIN | 465th Troop Carrier Group, Medium APO 253, N.Y., N.Y.  |
|  DATE OF REPORT | 23 Feb 1956  |
|  SOURCE OF INFORMATION | See paragraph 6(b) in report  |
|  DATE OF INFORMATION | 18 Feb 1956  |
|  PREPARING OFFICER | Captain Alvin R. Herzog, AO 705020  |
|  EVALUATION | A-1  |

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|  ORIGINATING AGENCY | REPORT NO. | PAGE 3 OF 3 PAGES  |
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|  465th Troop Carrier Group, Med APO 253, N.Y., N.Y. | IR 2-56 |   |

a. 2020Z, 18 Feb 1956 until 2110Z, 18 Feb 1956.

b. Night

5. All observers in the same aircraft, enroute from Marseille, France to Montelimar, France.

6. Identifying information of all observers:

a. N/A

b. Hahn, Stanford G., 1/Lt, AO 3014450, 780th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, APO 253, N.Y., N.Y., pilot; reliability, A-1.

Moise, Robeson S., 1/Lt, AO 3014450, 780th Troop Carrier Squadron…

1956

# CLAIMS WEATHER BALLOON CAN EXCEED 1,500 MILES PER HOUR:

The following is quoted from the New York Times of Feb. 20th: "Paris, Feb. 19-Aviation circles were speculating today on the identity of a strange object, alternately hovering and flying at speeds in excess of 1,500 miles per hour, picked up Friday night by radar operators at Orly International Airport. The object made a "blip" on the radar screen approximately twice as large as that of the average airliner, according to technicians. It appeared to be at an altitude of about 5,000 feet and was seen to follow aircraft taking off o…

On February 18, the Soviets warned the U.S. that they can now deliver bombs all over the world by either plane or rocket.

On this same date, Paris reported a mystery object in the skies. Described as twice as large as an ordinary commercial air liner, it was tracked on radar screens by Orly Airport officials. "Traveling at an estimated 1,500 miles an hour, the object appeared over the Paris region late last evening and seemed to hover for a few minutes before disappearing at high speed."

Reporter Writing from Paris on February 20 said that some radars had caught the blip, others hadn't. He a…

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PARIS, FEB. 21--(UP)--THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SOUGHT TODAY TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE "PHANTOM OF ORLY," A GIGANTIC FLYING-SAUCER-LIKE OBJECT WHICH WRIRLED ACROSS THE AIRPORT'S RADAR SCREEN AT SUPERSONIC SPEED LAST FRIDAY.

IT WAS THE THIRD TIME IN LESS THAN A YEAR THAT THE "PHANTOM" HAS BEEN CHARTED ON RADARSCOPES AT THE BUSY INTERNATIONAL AIRFIELD OUTSIDE OF PARIS. THE OBJECT WAS DESCRIBED AS ABOUT TWICE THE SIZE OF THE LARGEST KNOWN PLANE, MOVED AT TIMES AT AN ESTIMATED 2,000 MILES AN HOUR, AND HOVERED AROUND THE AIRPORT FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS.

THE MYSTERY WAS FURTHER COM…

2 Feb 1956

# Mystery of Paris Sky: Flying Cognac Bottle?

By Frank Kelley
From the Herald Tribune Bureau
1956, N. Y. Herald Tribune Inc.

PARIS, Feb. 20. — Several dozen experts are at work trying to find out what was going on above, near or at Orly Airport on the outskirts of Paris late Friday night when radar technicians said they sighted and watched for four hours on their screen a mysterious object twice the size of a four-engine airliner. They said the object hovered at 4,300 feet and at times put on jet-like bursts of speed up to 1,600 miles an hour.

Some say it may have been another o…