Craig, ColoradoSeptember 1956

Insufficient Data

Summary

On September 27, 1956, a civilian near Craig, Colorado reported about fourteen lights arranged in a string. The lights were uniform in spacing and looked like a row of cabin lights on a modern passenger aircraft. The objects moved from north to southeast and were watched for about ten minutes.

The Air Force contacted an airline and found that its flights passed over Craig on the route from Salt Lake City to Denver, with a flight leaving Salt Lake City at about 6:05 p.m. The description and duration matched. The Air Force concluded the sighting was caused by an aircraft.

Reported location

Craig, Colorado

Date of incident

September 1956

State / country

CO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

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: : ! PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
I. DATE ° 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
NE ‘ - a : ; O Wos Balloon
26 September 1956 Craig, Colorado ~ |O Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 3 Possiviy Sion
wey ! O Wos Aircraft
EL ——— 0 Ground-Visuel O Ground-Rador I CProbobly' Aircraft
OMT 27701507 0 Air Visvol D Air-Intercopt Rader |D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . O Wos Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
Xa Ma Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF O33ERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CRE RR
North to O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
: : = ‘ x 0 Unknown
ten minutes fourteen Southeast
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS :
Approximately 14 lights arranged as Contact w/Frontier Air Lines indi
a string as described: uniform in cates that airline flys over Crail
distance and appeared to be similar on the flight fm Salt lake City ©
to a string of cnbin lights on a modefyn Denver, Flight left Salt Lak?
passenger aircraft as seen from the at 1805, Description & duration of
ground, Ojject was traveling from the| sighting indicates sichtine causel
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North to the Southeast at approx imately by a/c, probably DC-3 commercial
gue oF two thousand feel altitude, Since there was an absence of sounf
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haan» was observed visually for ten |and the Frontier flight could not
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minutes have traveled, if on schedule, fm
Salt Lake te Craig in 50 minutes,
: case evaluated as probably a/c.
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