PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7072065

DATE OF SIGHTINGOctober 1956

REPORTED LOCATIONTehchapi California

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

1 1956 : 7 Gx Probably Ball
_i7 October 19. Tehchani, California ss Possibly Dallesn

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
D Ground- Vi sual O Grouwnd-Rador

0 Air Visual

3. DATE-TIME GROUP

Lecel Was Aircroft

Probobly Aircrof?
Possibly Aircroft

OD Air-Intercept Rador

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Was Astronomicol

O Yes >vobably Astronomical

XO Ne Civilian U Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE a ekccnerenieeeonnn
Westerly & 0D Insufficient Dota for Evaluation

- 8 Laat D Unknown
twenty two minutes one descending
0, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

One red egg-shaped object, size of dim Object viewed oberhead and moving

at arm's length. Object was initially west too fast for astro hody,

sighted directly overhead at 1000 fact | Bobbing motion, slow descent, var-
altitude, Object was moving to the West] inble winds, and duration indicate
and ascending and descending(out of sight). that Sighting was probably
Object was viewed visually for 22 minutis. caused by a balloon,

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