Hamilton, OhioJuly 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On July 3, 1957, an observer near Hamilton, Ohio reported a sighting that lasted about ten minutes. The attached message describes a related ground observation in Washington state.

The witness saw one round red object about the size of a grapefruit held at arm's length. It moved in a northerly direction and went up and down.

The Air Force record (Project 10073, its official file for unidentified flying object reports) lists the case as probably aircraft. The comment states the description, duration, and flight path indicate the sighting was probably caused by an aircraft.

Reported location

Hamilton, Ohio

Date of incident

July 1957

State / country

OH / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
: 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
1 0 Wos Balloon
4 3 July 1957 Hamilton Ohio 0 Probably Baileon
© | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP I TYPE OF OBSERVATION |O Possibly Balloon _
¥ ’ Sa i 2 O Wos Aircraft
3 Laaal a = os ‘0:Ground-Visuol 0 Ground-Reder OL Probably Aireroft
| cut. 0 02157 s] Air-Vi sual O Air-Interceapt Roaar = Possibly Airerafy
Eg 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
3 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
EE ONo Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
© | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE ee
3 Northerly, O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
E 2 glass 0 Unknown
5, tem minutes one | up and down.
© 10. BRIE? SUMMARY OF SIGHTING He COMMENTS RE PR
3 | One round red object the size of a Description, duration, flight
i | grapefruit at arm's length. Ubject path indij ce at this sight
4 yas seen moving in a northerly direction,Ang was probably caused by an
BF | moving up and down. Object was seen aircra -
5 visually for ten minutes.
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E | a LOL ) i 45 Jp
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 32)
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