Klamath Falls, OregonMarch 1955

Insufficient Data

Summary

On March 14, 1955, near Klamath Falls, Oregon, civilians reported bright objects in the sky. The observation lasted about six hours. One object was star-like and very bright and was watched for a long time. A second object looked like a meteor and moved from south to north.

An observatory at a university evaluated the first object. The Air Force listed the bright star-like object as the planet Jupiter. It listed the second object as astronomical, a meteor. The case is recorded under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Klamath Falls, Oregon

Date of incident

March 1955

State / country

OR / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

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\ yrs PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
FEA EE ee EEE ER ER GE a Re RS RAIN CE ARCA SDT Cou
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Vos 5 hs

14 Marc 055 oN ns " 0 Probably Bolloon

ss Maron 1909 | Kiamath Falls, Oregon (3 [rebebly Raeen
3. DATE-TI4E GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

Local CLEEDNII fc a a R¥Ground-Vi sual J Ground-Radar 2 Ra

Buk: In/ayRanwy to 0 Air-Visuval 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft

RETR ee Ts, SOURCE T|.o¢:Was Astronomical Jupiter
i 0 Yes 210 Probably Astioriomical Meteok
Cd CAVERN (Hoveraly 0 Pessibly Astroromical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE RI Se
§ 1 6 hours 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
4 : ef po 0 Unknown
CPR PRR RE Ge TT | TRS NN || JONES ELM Sr USES ]
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
15 Star like, very bright, Long 1, Planet Jupiter (Evaluated by
J observation, University of California Observa
1 2. Second object meteor-like in tory).
flight from South to North. 2, Astro (Meteor),
3 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
:
5 ‘
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