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Today in History – December 5, 1956 – The “Snark” disappears and is found 27 years later (maybe).

5 December 1956 – A Northrop XSM-62 Snark, 53-8172, N-69D test model, fitted with a new 24-hour stellar inertial guidance system, launches from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida. It wanders off-course, ignores destruct command, disappears over Brazil. It is found by a farmer in January 1983. The Day They Lost the Snark   By J.

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Peter V. Gallo

Preferred Name: Peter
Date of Birth: August 26, 1943
Highest Military Grade: Select
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Peter Gallo flew the F-100 with the 162nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron of the AZANG. Peter is currently a real estate broker in Tucson, AZ.

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