Durham, N. C., November 1957November 1957

Insufficient Data

Summary

On November 6, 1957, at 7:01 a.m. in Durham, North Carolina, a civilian observer reported seeing an oblong object about the size of a baseball at arm's length. The object was red and appeared alongside another object behind it. The witness described it as whizzing like an electric razor and said it slowly disappeared. The sighting lasted three minutes. The object remained stationary in position. The Air Force evaluation was listed as unknown.

Reported location

Durham, N. C., November 1957

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
6-7 November 1957

2. LOCATION
Durham, N.C.

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Level
GMT 07 0145 Z

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

5. PHOTOS
Yes
No

6. SOURCE
Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
3 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
2

9. COURSE
Stationary

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
6 Oblong object, size of a baseball at arm's length, red. Two objects, one behind the other, whizzing like electric razor. Slowly disappeared.

11. COMMENTS
Considerably jet traffic in area. Probably two jet exhausts at high altitude.

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

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 14 SEP 52)

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