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ND THERN CALIFORNIA‘
ESIDENTS IN BOTH TOWNS REPORTED EXPLOSION-LIKE SOUNDS A
ODJECT STREAKED OVERHEAD»
IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, THE COAST GUARD DISPATCHED
HELICOPTER 70 SEARCH THE BAY NEAR THE SAN MATEO BRIDGE FO ‘
REPORTS A PLANE HAD CRASHED INTO THE WATER. NO URECKAGE WAS FOUND. ‘%
ONE WITNESS SAID THE METEOR APPEARED BE SHOWERING YELLOW +4
PARTICLES INTO THE BAY AS IT PASSED OVER. ALL AGREED IT WAS AN
UNUSUALLY LARGE AND SRILLIAN iT DISPLAY.

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It's gm irteresting coincidence that an even more Snes vad tik fireball was seen

on the West Coast exactly four hours Iater;* at 9:30 POT. Althoueh one saucer in~
vestigator has written up the test Coast firebait as a bona—fide UFO case, we may
thane Coral Lorenzen for giving readers a more critical appraisal. (See. the APRO.
illetin, September, 1957. The APRO account is well worth studying, as a typical
sane of the extraordinary contradictions always found in eyewitness descriptions
of a fireball.) We earnestly wish that more UFO researchers would be less incau-
tious in their interpretation of firebali r reports, Fireballs and large meteors
nowadays are very frequently reported as UFOs, and it's up to us investigators to

atch such errors and keep them out of the authentic-sighting category. If we
sone, we are making a mistake--in reverse--like that of the Air Force consultants |
who explain away genuine UFO reports as "meteors."

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from Sait Lake City to the] Traveling North 'papers and radio stations from the

9 250 miles;Coumeia River to soutn of the

stern skies last night} In Eureka,” Calif, a Ciraak
; ‘le north of bere, amateur astrono- Tehachapis and east to the Grea | _—T
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HEADQUARTERS
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United States Air Force

‘ingsley Field

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SUBJECT: Unidentiried Flying Object
TO: Comnander
Air Defense Command
ATTN: Director of Intelligence

Ent Air Force Base
Colorado Springs, Colorado

lL. Under the provisions of AFR 200-2, an Unidentified
Flying Object Report is hereby submitted.

2e Due to the unavailability of AF Form 1l2, Air Intell-
igence Information Report, the required information is out-
lined as specified in the regulation cited above,

&@e Description of the object.
(1) Shape - Ovals

(2) Size —- In appearance object resembled landing
light used on multi-engine aircraft,

{3} Color - When initially sighted object glowed
a brilliant (Whi ce) with & yellow fringe) around
it. As it préSeeded in flight “the nose or _
forward section of the object glowed a bluish

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and. then a greenish color.

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(9) Discernabdle d
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(7) Exhaust trail - Just prior to its disappearance
a reddish exhaust cone trailed the object.

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(5) Sour id me No Sound WAs hear } unt Li co > linutes
aiter the object disappeared, At that time a

shock wave from an explosion was heard ( appar-

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could not have been heard in a spot where there
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WAS more activity suc! 3 heavy traffic on a

Db. Description of course of object.

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{1) The observers were initially
brilliant white light of the

le of eleyation -(30 degrees. Object's
ding -¢320 degrees,

as b. (2) above,

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(4, VOject*s tlight pata reported as SU PSLeny WLt45
10 Getained maneuverses

(5) Object disappeared after the 3 star shells (noted
above) appeared appraxiate ly 6 seconds after it
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(2) No optical aids used.

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