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Noe 2l7: Object reported moving into winds of 20-30K velocity and going faster than C-l;7 doing 130 M.P.H, The speed and direction are apparently very score since the C47 was parallel} Ling the ob- 3 ject's course and several readings were made of the compass and air speed indicator. If report is true, definitely no balloon. 4 » No. 218; No date civen, consequently no check could be made of surface or uppereair date. As stated by observer, a flare is probable answer. No. 2193; Time of sighting coincides within a few minutes of the release time of the USAF rawinsonde at Newburzh and a pilot balloon sound- ing at New York. Very little description siven that can be interpreted as either being a burning balloon or a meteor. One negative remark was that the object moved from Hast to West, an impossible situation for a balloon since winds at ell levels were westerly. No. 220: Wird at all levels W. to WNW; object reported flying directly into these winds. Also made definite turn from flying due North to North Northwest. Sichting time ) 1/), hours after scheduled release times at Alameda, Sacramento and MoClellan AFB. ho 2l; No information. No. 222; Winds aloft charts not available on this one. Object sighted 2 172 hours after scheduled release time at which time it was plotted by a radar DF station to be at 27,000. A short time later the same station reported the object circling at 10,000; spsed estisated at between 200-500 4.P.H, Most likely not a balloon. 223 peat Ant MOAT not a scheduled release balloon since it was ssen me Tse from the cround one hour before release time at Albuquergue ‘and was seen by various persons as late as four hours after its orisinal Sighting. Seventeen irdividuals saw ae reported this object as define itely a green flere. All commercial and governmental airfields were questioned-concerning balloon releases with no success, No. 22h; Described exactly as that in No. 223, only at an altitude of 13,500 feet Mean Sea Level, 7,000 feet above the sarth, Seen 21/2 hours after scheduled balloon releasa time. Wind at levels from 10,000 to 15,000 was WNW while flare was reported as travelling at very high speed in a WSW direction. Very accurate observation made dy two ¥,3,I. acents. Definitely not a weather balloon. Woe 225: No date riven. tject sighted within 15 minutes of release time of pilot balloon soundings at Albuquerque at low altitude, 500 feet. Exploded in red spray at 200 feet. This exact phenomena occurred on three different occasions at the sams time which would seem to oliminate possibility of burning weather balloon. Ww Declassification Authority: NND 57565