Klamath Falls, OregonMay 1955

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Summary

On May 8, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member in Klamath Falls, Oregon saw a single white object. It looked larger than the morning star. The sighting lasted more than an hour, about one hour and twelve minutes.

The object drifted slowly from the east to the southeast. The witness used binoculars for part of the time. Even so, it could not be positively identified as a balloon. The sky was clear with good visibility.

The Air Force compared the time, wind, and location to a weather balloon release point nearby. Because these conditions matched, the case was resolved as possibly a weather balloon. No further investigation was authorized.

Reported location

Klamath Falls, Oregon

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

OR / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS : ae
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4 1 Vas Balloon
. [ER ONE JelaTROH FRIAS, Orepon JQ Eresdily Bales |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ty ENn |
i Loca! Gisignme © XIX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar o Probobly Aircraft
| out 08/12077 — | 0 AirVisud O Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
] 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
00 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
| 4 k TWNo | __Civilian (GOC_ Observer) i: D0 Possibly Astronomical :
-_ 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE IRS DTN Oa i ldap io boisto sion ad
; 1 @] asi cont Data for Evaluation
; 0 Unknown
. DER UN Ves YS MInUbLen| One. LN 0 BRL i
: 1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
; 1 One white object, "larger than the Due to the correlations of con
morning star", was observed for a ditions, wind, time and proxi-
] period of more than an hour to drift mity, (to weather balloon releas
. slowly from the East to the Southeast,.,| ing poing) this sighting was
: Part of the time, object was observed resolved as possibly weather
by ;means of binoculars, but | balloon with no further investi
: : could not be positively identified as gation,
: balloon, |
E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :

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