Garden Grove, CaliforniaNovember 1957

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Summary

On November 6, 1957, in Garden Grove, California, a civilian witness and neighbors observed a fiery red object about the size of a quarter in the night sky. The object moved back and forth, stopped, hovered, and then moved off again. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. The Air Force noted that although the object had characteristics of a balloon, it could not reach a conclusion due to missing information.

Reported location

Garden Grove, California

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

CA / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
6 November 1957

2. LOCATION
Garden Grove, California

13. CONCLUSIONS
[checked boxes] Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

2a. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
Day 07/0500Z

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

5. WITNESSES
[checked] Yes
[unchecked] No

6. POLICE
Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
15 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
not given

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Fiery red obj, size of a quarter. Moved back & forth. Stopped & hovered and moved off again.

11. COMMENTS
Although the obj has the characteristics of a balloon, cannot conclude due to missing information.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28973985