PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6787842

DATE OF SIGHTINGMarch 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONPasadena California

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
!. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Bailoon
23_March_1957 Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP DATE-TIME GROUP 4. 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Local Local Sround-Visual Sround-Visual Ground-Radar Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft Was Aircraft
XProbably Aireraft XProbably Aireraft
GMT_24/0726Z AinVisual AinVisual Air-Intereept Radar Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical Was Astronomical
Yes aYes 0 Probably Astronomical
No No Civilian & Military Civilian & Military D Possibly Astranomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS  9. COURSE NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE ¤ Other..
000 00 Insufficient Data for for Evaluation
Unknown
14 minutes one Westerly Westerly
10. BRIEF SUMA 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One round bright red object One round bright red object the size of the size of Concur with Concur with Reporting Reporting Officer
a grapefruit at arm's length. Object that this sighting was probably
appeared caused by exhaust glow of a
out. Object was estimated at four to passing a/c.
five thousand alt and moving
westerly. Object disappeared in the
West.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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FM COMDR 669 ACWRON PORHUE CALIF
TO RJEDEN/COMDR ADC ENT AFB COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO
RJWPJB/COMDR 27 ADIV DEF NORTON AFE CALIF RJWPJB/COMDR 27 ADIV DEF NORTON AFB CALIF
RJEDWP/COMDR AIR TECH INTELL CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON OHIO RJEDWP/COMDR AIR TECH INTELL CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON OHIO
RJEPHQ/DIRECTOR OF I RJEPHQ/DIRECTOR R OF INTELL HQTRS USAF 25 D C
BT BT
UNCLAS S 669TH OPS O92-Y PD 1. ROUND B. GREAPFRUIT. C. BRIGHT RED D.NONE S 669TH OPS O92-Y PD 1. ROUND B. GREAPFRUIT. C. ERIGHT RED D.NONE
E. N/A F.WHITE FLASHES SHOOTING OUT G.NONE H. NONE 1. NONE 2. OBJECT E. N/A F.WHITE FLASHES SHOOTING OUT G.NONE H. NONE 1. NONE 2. OBJECT
SIGHTED BY GOC PERSONAL ON DUTY. B. ESTIMATED FOUR TO FIVE THOUSAND ↑
FEET, RANGE AND AZIMUTH UNKNOW C. ESTIMATED FOUR TO FIVE THOUSAND
FEET, RANGE UNKNOW• DISAPPEARED WEST OF PASADENA CALIF. D. HEADING ON
FOURTEEN MINUTE• 3. A. GROUND VISUAL. B. BINOCULARS, ETC. C. N/A
4.A. 24 MARCH 57 0726Z. B. NIGHT 5. PASADENA, CALIF. 6. T/ LWY
CRCW USAF 831 GREVELIA, PASADENA, CALI
PL, LOS ANGLES, CA

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STREET PASADENA CALIF• RELIABILITY OF
OF ALL THE ABOVE MENTIONED OBSERVERS IS VERY GOOD. T/SGT JOHNSON
PASADENA FILTER CENTER. 7. CLEAR WINDS CALM. B. SURFACE 27O/O5KTS
O5KTS 10,000 345/ 15KTS
5/60 8O, OOO UNK. C. NONE D. 15 PLUS E. NONE F. N
EDWARD R. MARTIN, INTERCEPT CONTROLLER. POSSIBLE EXHAUST GLOW OF
PASSING AIRCRA 12. NONE.
BT
24/1245Z MAR RJWPJB
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At about ll:oo, reports began to come in from Pasadena. Hundreds of people
an object. asadena police
swritchboard took mumerous calls ard the Pasadena Filter Ce received "many"
reports between 11:10 and 11:50. Captain Joe Fry, Filte C.O., said, "We
had reports that the UFo was orange-red flashing a brigh te light. Some
of the callers claimed they heard the 'sound of reports' the light flashed
from the object." The Filter Center notified "our radar contact" (an unidenti-
fied CAA post near Los Angeles).
Captain Fry alao said that a complete report was filed with Norton AFB;
Major Thomas s Bowers, Information Services Officer of the 27th Air Division,
said the object could not be identified. "We were not able to pick the object
31 NoAin Forc sou
Bowers
Angeles and Oxmard; he had heard that a plane from Oxnard AFB had been sent up S
to investigate but he had official confirmation that such was the case.
Filter
Center. Wagner, thinking the e object may have been a balloon, checked various
bureaus and stations that launch balloons, but failed to amy releasings
that might account for the object.
Finally, in the early morning hours of March 24, near Oxmard, a UFO "swished"
low over a car driven bu , of the U. S. Navy. The UFO buzzed
his automobile all the way to the gates af the U. S. laval Station. -I Russ
Leadabrand in the Pasadena Independent,3/26; Lee Pitt in the L. A. Mirror-
News,3/29; A$ ying Saucers, Sumer issue, quoting Ventura Free-
Press, 3/25. (Credit: for Pasadena & L. A. clippings.)