Dallas, TexasMarch 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On March 12, 1957, at 1:05 a.m., a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported seeing two round white objects about the size of a pea at arm's length. The objects moved as a pair, first seen at 30 degrees elevation and 10 degrees azimuth. They rose to 30 degrees elevation and 90 degrees azimuth, then split. One object went east while the other went west before disappearing into the horizon. The sighting lasted seven minutes. The Air Force evaluated the report as unidentified. The description, duration, and flight path indicated the sighting was probably caused by a formation of two jet aircraft.

Reported location

Dallas, Texas

Date of incident

March 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. D TE
12 March 1957

2. LOCATION
Dallas, Texas

3. DATE/TIME GROUP
Local
GMT 13/0530Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
*X*Ground-Visual     [ ] Ground-Radar
[ ] Air-Visual        [ ] Air-Intercept Radar

5. SOURCE
Civilian

6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
two

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
seven minutes

8. PHOTOS
[ ] Yes
X No

9. COURSE
NNE to E

12. CONCLUSIONS
[ ] Was Balloon
[ ] Probably Balloon
[ ] Possibly Balloon
[ ] Was Aircraft
[X] Probably Aircraft
[ ] Possibly Aircraft
[ ] Was Astronomical
[ ] Probably Astronomical
[ ] Possibly Astronomical
[ ] Other
[ ] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[ ] Unidentified

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Two round white objects the size of a pea at arm's length. Objects moved as pair, head and trail object. Objects were first seen at 30 dgr elevation, 10 dgr azimuth, and disappeared at 30dgr elev amd 90 dgr azimuth. Objects split. One going east the other West. Object disappeared into the horizon after having been seen visually for seven minutes.

11. COMMENTS
Description, duration, flight path indicate that this sighting was probably caused by a formation of two jet a/c.

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