AISS-UFOB-205-56 / ANOPS 07-170 — 1956-07-28 — Chilton, Wisconsin (BQ 5092)

On 28 July 1956 at 0745Z, an observer near Chilton, Wisconsin sighted a baseball-sized solid white-and-red object with an arm protruding from the rear, at 098 degrees from observer and at tree-top height initially, rising to about 10,000 feet azimuth N/A. The object was watched with eye and binoculars for 5 hours and 15 minutes during the night-to-dawn transition, disappearing as the day brightened. Winds at 10,000 feet were 296/30 knots. The 676th ACWRON at Antigo, Wisconsin noted the sighting could be a balloon released at Minneapolis-St. Paul on 27 July for weather reconnaissance. The 4602D AISS concluded the object was the planet Venus.

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