Fontana & La Jolla, Calif., August 1956August 1956

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Fontana & La Jolla, Calif., August 1956 in August 1956. The full case file (5 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 26.

Reported location

Fontana & La Jolla, Calif., August 1956

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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a “ 3 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Erk
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
8 O Was Boll
22 August 1956 Fontana & La Jolla, Calif. 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TINE GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION =10 Possibly Buttons
3 BX Wes Aircraft
oMT__23/0225,0335,0300| 0 AirVisue O Air-Intercopt Rader |D Possibly Airerolt
5. IT 1! O Was Astronemicel
0 Yes O Probably Astronomicol
XB Ne three civi lians OD Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE TER WE ——
: l-straight & . RR Dete for Eveluation
5 to 10 minutes 1,land2 level a
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
ist Sighting: 1 object round, size of
psa, color brilliant red light w/ "31 | RE ART
fipey red tail, such as a comst,faded. All three sightings evaluated
2nd sighting: One object 5 inches in as a/c.
ITengh, Color brilliant red, fireey tail
such as comet, ;
3rd sighting: Two objects round, size
of pea, Color yellow white lights fly-
ing in formation but spread out, fly-
ing straight - 4 level. w/ turns faded
out.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28967126

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Fontana & La Jolla

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1956 1956-08-01