20 Mi NW of Corpus Christi, TexasNovember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On November 19, 1957, a GOC observer near Corpus Christi, Texas, reported an object with the appearance of a bright star with a tail, about the size of a pea and silver in color. The trail was very bright and rather short. The object appeared to be a contrail with sun shining on it. The observation lasted 20 minutes. The object moved from 45 degrees angle to the horizon, disappearing at 32 degrees. It started moving vertically and then changed to a horizon, fading suddenly after 20 minutes. The Air Force concluded this was apparently an unidentified aircraft rather than a UFO.

Reported location

20 Mi NW of Corpus Christi, Texas

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
19 November 1957

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
GMT 19/2340Z

5. PHOTOS
O Yes
O No

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
20 minutes

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Object with appearance of bright star with a tail, size of a pea, silver. Trail was very bright and rather short, but appeared to be a contrail. Appeared to be an a/c with the sun shining on it.

2. LOCATION
20 Mi NW of Corpus Christi, Texas

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
O Ground-Visual    O Ground-Radar
O Air-Visual       O Air-Intercept Radar

6. SOURCE
GOC Observer

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
ONE

9. COURSE
O110
N NOT given

12. CONCLUSIONS
O Aircraft
O Probably Balloon
O Possibly Balloon
O Was Aircraft
O Probably Aircraft
O Possibly Aircraft
O Was Astronomical
O Probably Astronomical
O Possibly Astronomical
O Other
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
O Unknown

11. COMMENTS
This is apparently an unidentified a/c, rather than a UFO.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28974964