PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6782940

DATE OF SIGHTINGNovember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONOver Las Vegas Nevada

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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12, CONCLUSIONS
Q Was Balloon

1. DATE 2. LOCATION

__is November 1997 _| Over Las Vegas, Nevada i) Arad ti ee hah
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
: 0 Was Aircraft
Local =e ae —— — | O Ground-Visucl f)Ground-Rodar GXProbebly Aircraft
GMT 1 4/042 eA XIKAir Vi sual <Q Air-Intercept Rador O Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other
0D Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
: 0 Unknown
me not given _ One = orditting
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Object with bright lights (as landing | Orbitting object with bright lights
Lichts) sighted also on radar. Obj and a/c in vicinity ~- probably
was orbittiing. Pa/ Cs

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