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PROJECT 10/3 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 18 February, 1960 | 2. LOCATION | Rockledge, Florida  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 1000 GMT. 18/1500Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Rader ☐ Air-Intercept Rader  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☑ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | Not Given | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | six  |
|  9. COURSE | South | 10. COMMENTS | Probably birds Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown  |
|  11. BIRTH | 11. COMMENTS | Probably birds. |   |

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In The Sky; Jan 20
What Was It - 1960
Who Saw It?

“Ifo in the sky! It’s a . . . . what?”

A half-dozen or so brilliantly-white objects — at apparently very high altitude — moving slowly south Wednesday morning — that’s the report.

The caller, a resident of Rockledge who asked that her name not be used, said what she saw while driving south on the river road in Rockledge about 10 a. m. were definitely not planes. What they were was what she wanted to know.

What she wanted to know The Tribune could not tell her, so this announcement is by way of a query.

Did anyone…

Major Roy E. Haines,

Dear Sir,

Because of the enclosed news item from the Orlando, Florida, "Evening Star," I am enclosing, also, two from the Cocoa, Florida, "Tribune."

I am the Rockledge resident who first reported the brilliantly white objects. I stopped my car to be sure they were in motion and they shortly emerged from behind a road-side tree, so I assumed they were moving, slowly. There was a slight "vee" formation and they could have been tubular as the longer sides appeared to be straight, so clearly were the objects etched against a cloudless blue sky. I believe birds could not hav…