Houston, TexasJune 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On June 12, 1957, at night, a civilian in Houston, Texas reported a sighting. The observation lasted about one minute.

The witness saw one round object about the size of a star held at arm's length. The object's color varied from light green to brilliant red. It appeared above the clouds and below the stars.

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. No separate report was on file.

Reported location

Houston, Texas

Date of incident

June 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

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3 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
|. pate 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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2 12 June 1957 Houston, Texas 0 Probably Balicon
_ | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP = TYPE OF OBSERVATION oF Sen
4 By PE a EE RS Tr Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar B SPRAY oka
i GMT 13/02447 | 0 AirVisuoi 0 Air-intarcopt Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
E | 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 ‘Was Astronomical
5 O Yes O Probably Astronomical
{ | Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
© | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE I oO RE Re SRE
E O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
% 5 0 Unknown
fs: one minute one unknown
| 110, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING Hi COMMENTS Ee
be | One round object the size of a star Description, duration, flight
A at arm's length, Object varied in coldr path indicate that this sight-
R | from light green to red brilliant. ing was probably caused by an 2
BF | Object appeared above the clouds and a/c,
& below the stars. Object was seen
BE | visually for one minute, |
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