Ellington AFB, TexasFebruary 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On February 27, 1957, military and civilian ground observers at Ellington Air Force Base, Texas, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The object was round and white and looked about the size of a grapefruit at arm's length.

The object flew in a straight line from north to south and was watched, by eye and through binoculars, for one minute and 45 seconds. It moved too fast for the observers to note fine details. The sky was clear with visibility about 15 miles.

Based on the description, the duration, and the flight path, the Air Force concluded the sighting was probably caused by the sun reflecting off a high flying aircraft.

Reported location

Ellington AFB, Texas

Date of incident

February 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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fit PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
1. DATE ; 2 LOCATION : 12. CONCLUSIONS bis,
i : 0 Wos Bolloon
27 Februarv 1 957 Ellington AFB, Texas 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION g rassibly Belicen
; O Wos Aircraft
tocol RL XB Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar Bx Probably Ricsian
ge My... &87/01367 O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rodar DO Possibly Aircraft
5S. PHOTOS ; §. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
§ O Yes |} Probably Astronomical
Rf XDNo Military and Civilian (GQC) |O@ Possibly Astronomical
4 7- LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ola) (RR ER
4 O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
i : i ; 0 Unknown
: ong min 435 secs one North to South ee
1 ). SRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS : i
1 One round white object, the size of a Description, duration, flight F
4 grapefwuit at arm's &ength, Object flew path indicate that this sight-
. in a straight line and was seen visual y ing was probably caused by the |
5 and through binoculars for 1 minute sum reflecting off a high flying b
4 and 5 seconds, aircraft,
3 ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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