PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7340236

DATE OF SIGHTINGJanuary 1956

REPORTED LOCATIONTurlock California

FRAMES3

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i. hs

q January _1956

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Leal
omt__V8/U710Z Jan 36 08/0715Z Jan 56

- |S PHOTC

GO Yes
. Fo" Lanet oF osseavation

unknown
” BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

2. LOCATION

Turlock California

12. CONCLUSIONS

—

4, TYPE OF OBSERVATION

RGround- Vi sual
O Air Vi sual

DB Ground-Reder

O Air-intercept Roeder. |

ooo ooo

7.1F Tod .

Civilian

a

6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

__two (2)

9%. COURSE

{up and down

ooo aa

g

Wes Balloen
Prebebly Batleon
Possibly Bellieen ©

Wes Aircreft
Probebly Aircreft
Possibly Aircraft

Was Adconeutect Stars
Probebly Astronemicel
Possibly Astronomical

Other

Insufficient Data fer Evelvetion
Unk no wn

a Two (2) round blue-green objects, the

size of baseballs held at arms length,
seen for an unknown period of time.
The objects seemed to go"up and down"
Fighters dispatched to area of sightin
negative results except pilots reporte
that there were two exceptionally brig

stars overhead,

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In. COMMENTS

t

——-

Concur with the opinion of the
reporting officer that this sight
ing was generated by two excep-
tionally bright stars.

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WPDE59 YDAG44 XYA149 xo021 XXBQOSESPAGUISEUB2S 3 A |
a RJEDEN RJEDWP” RJEPHO RJWPSE | Lg é
_ DE RJWPSE 110 | | e.3
WH @917152 eS as eb. ee
cae COMAIRDIVDEF 28 HAMILTON AFB CALIF wee 3 (
TO RJEDEN/COMADC ENT AFB COLO SPRINGS COLO ~ haa ae
RJEDWP/COMDR AIR TECHNICAL INTEL CEN WRIGHT PATTERSON AFE OHIO 7
RJEPHQ/DIR OF INTEL HQ USAF WASH DC
“RJWPSE/COMDR 46g2ND AIR INTEL SEV SQ HAMILTON AFB CALIF

BT
S/UNCLASSIFIED/280ID 56M-281. UFOB. (1)(€A) ROUND PD (1)C(E)
FASEEALL PD (€1)€C) GREEN BLUE PD (1)(€B) TWO PD (1)(E) NONE. (1)¢F)

“NONE. (1)(G) NONE PD (1)(H) NONE PD (1)(1) NONE PD €2)¢A) GOC OBSERVER
“PD C1)¢B) 45 DEGREE AN GLE FROM OBSERVER PD (2)(C) NOT LISTED PD (2)C€B) (

ad a
es ooo

UP AND DOWN PD (2)¢E) NOT LISTED PD (2)(F) NOT LISTED PD (3)¢A)
-GROUND-VISUAL PD (3)(5) NONE PD (3)(C) N/A PD (4)(A) @806715Z JAN 56 PD
(4)(B) NIGHT PD (5) WEST AVE & SCOTT AVE, TURLOCK, CALIF PD DJQH 1923 PD

(+) So 1, mmm st, TURLOCK, CALIF, STUDENT PD ga
| 1: , Megumi, TeRL0OCK, CALIF, STUDENT PD ge.

AGE NOT LISTED, POLICE DEPARTMENT, TURLOCK, CALIF PD Geass 1,

FRAME 003 / 003tesseract-200dpi

pack; TWO RUWPSE 110

. 564 SODA CREEK ROAD, TURLOCK, CALIF, STUDENT PSdgiiigiitioaeac. 1/2, ROUTE
NR 4 BOX 169, TURLOCK, CALIF, STUDENT PD (5)¢A) CLEAR PD (5)(5) 6,099 NOT

LISTED PD 19,208 250/55 PD 15,298 279/50 PD 29, 00 278/115 PD 25,282

-——e— oo — ee ee Gtk A luie ley’!

f 276/120 PD 30,980 260/119 PD (7)(C) UNKNOWN PD (7)(D) TEN MILES PD
(7)CE) SCATTERED CLOUDS PD (7)(F) NONE PD (8) NONE PD (9) RESIST

| FIGHTERS WERE DISPATCHED TO THE AREA CONCERNED AND PILOTS REPORTED THEY
| SIGHTED NOTHING BUT TWO EXCEPIONALLY BRIGHT STARS OVERHEAD PD (1@) NONE
’ PD (11) DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, 28TH AIR DIV (DEF), DIRECTOR CONCURS
WITH THE EVALUATION LISTED IN ITEM 9 ABOVE PD (12) NONE PD’

BT

99718272 JAN RJWPSB

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