Amarillo, TexasJuly 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On July 9, 1957, during the day, a civilian sewage plant operator in Amarillo, Texas reported a sighting. The sky was clear.

Two men were watching a B-36 aircraft fly over when they noticed one bright object that seemed to be following the plane. The object was round, about the size of a pea, and silver. It stopped for a while, then went straight up and faded.

The report notes a weather balloon was released near the same time as the sighting. The Air Force record (Project 10073, its official file for unidentified flying object reports) lists the case as a balloon. Both the civilian weather office and the reporting officer believed the object was a balloon.

Reported location

Amarillo, Texas

Date of incident

July 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

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3 : { PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
4 BX Wos Bolloon
; 9 Julv 1957 Amarillo Texas 0 Probably | be
1¢ : i. Texa :

© | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon _

J O Wos Aircrof

i tesa ee XQ Ground-Visvoel O Ground-Rodar o Probably Airerofy

GMT 09/2= 00Z 0 Air-Visuoi 0 Air-Intercept Rador O Possibly Aircraft

REM RE ERE RE A HE eT ee ee RE SRG: | J Ye Prensa py

O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical

3 0 Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronemicel |
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1 7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE a [So |, (ela A SE oN
J O insufficient Data for Eveluation
Folk 0 Unknown

one straight up

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

| One object, round, size of pea, color Civ WX believes obj was

: silver, Object seemed to be follow- balloon as does reporting

; ing B-35, stopped for a while then officer.

2 vent straight up. WX balloon was 3
released near same time as sighting.

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