Fontana & San Bernadino California, March 1957March 1957

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Summary

On March 27, 1957, at night, a civilian witnessed a meteorlike object near Fontana and San Bernardino, California. The object was reddish in color with fire shooting out of the rear. It was about half the size of a dime as seen from the ground and traveled on a downward course while flaming out. The sighting lasted about one minute. The witness questioned the time of observation and believed he saw the object for less than one minute. The Air Force controller concluded this was very probably a meteor. No aircraft were reported overdue.

Reported location

Fontana & San Bernadino California, March 1957

Date of incident

March 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
25 March 1957

2. LOCATION
Fontana & San Bernardino
California

3. DATE/TIME GROUP
Local 2115
GMT 0532Z

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

5. PHOTOS
[] Yes
[] No

6. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
1 minute ?

7. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
One object meteorlike, size of dime, color reddish with fire shooting out of rear fire [illegible] size of object. Object on a downward course & flamed out. Had fire shooting out rear.

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
0110
Downward

10. CONCLUSIONS
[] Was Balloon
[] Was Aircraft
[] Probably Aircraft
[] Possibly Aircraft
[] Was Astronomical
[] Probably Astronomical
[] Possibly Astronomical
[] Other
[] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[] Unknown

11. COMMENTS
Question the time observed, said he saw this object probably a. lot less than one minute.

12. SOURCE
Civilian

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969398