Canton, OhioDecember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On December 13, 1957, a witness in Canton, Ohio saw one round gold object about the size of a basketball. The object moved slowly toward the east. It was in sight for about four seconds. This was a military, ground visual report.

The report was filed on Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The card lists the conclusion as insufficient data for evaluation.

Reported location

Canton, Ohio

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

OH / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

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"a. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
4 11. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Wos Balloon
E 13 December 1957 Canton, Ohio 2. Bohgply Bellsen
i 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION oy ossibly Balloon
EL Ladd iboaptin Sdn oat s ltd XX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 8 Probably Aircraft
MT 13/13307Z 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar | DJ Possibly Aircraft :
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was Astronomicol
\ O Yes O Probably Astronomical
: AXNo Military O Possibly Astronomical
ERI HR  ) C ATR OTR ES HERE] 97: Cb do Lo AR
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE EE OIRGE hs eR dC |
: gid LL Data for Evaluation
. nknown
four seconds one | East |
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: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
| One round gold object the size of a Insufficiet data for evaluation.
i basketball, Object was seen moving
E slowly east and was in sight 4 seconds. Ef
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No report in file, i
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 28 SEP 32) :

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