USAF record 28964532 (1956)

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 7 January 1956

2. LOCATION Turlock, California

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE GMT 08/0715Z Jan 56

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar]

5. PHOTOS [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE Yes

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION unknown

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS two (2)

9. COURSE up and down

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 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.' Lighted object(s) pitched to area of sighting, negative results except pilots reported that there were two exceptionally bright stars overhead.

11. COMMENTS Concur with the opinion of the reporting officer that this sighting was generated by two exceptionally bright stars.

12. CONCLUSIONS Was Ballon [HW: Was Ballon] Probably Ballon [HW: Probably Ballon] Possibly Ballon [HW: Possibly Ballon] Was Aircraft [HW: Was Aircraft] Probably Aircraft [HW: Probably Aircraft] Possibly Aircraft [HW: Possibly Aircraft] Was Astronomical Stars [HW: Was Astronomical Stars] Possibly Astronomical Stars [HW: Possibly Astronomical Stars]

ATIC FORM 129 (REV 36 SEP 53)