La Aurora, Guatemala, June 1957June 1957

Insufficient Data

Summary

On June 14, 1957, at about 5:55 a.m. Zulu time, observers near La Aurora Airport in Guatemala reported a sighting. The report came through a U.S. air attache and was credited to several Guatemalan witnesses. The weather was cloudy with a light drizzle.

The object was round, about the size of a grapefruit, and a bright orange white color seen even through thin clouds. It made no trail or sound. It appeared in the southwest and moved slowly overhead at about 5,000 feet in a straight line, making frequent definite stops. It then reversed course to the west and made an abrupt climb, shrinking to the size of a pinhead before going out of sight. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes.

The Air Force record (Project 10073, its official file for unidentified flying object reports) lists the case as insufficient data for evaluation.

Reported location

La Aurora, Guatemala, June 1957

Date of incident

June 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

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i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
E |. oate 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
1 0 Wos Balloon
4 foc hf ep YY 1a Aurora Guatemala O Probabiy Balloon
: A S IR 25 Li i. Lt LS ic Lo 3
© | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Edd
EE | nn = ; O Wos Aircraft
| Frere tee bo 20 1 Se GRAS X03 Ground-Visuol DO Ground-Rodar 0 Probobly Airerafs
[ 1 { GMT 14/05557 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |O Possibly Aircraft
1 5. PROTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
: | O Yes O Probably Astronomical
BE | XB Ne USAIRA O Possibly Astronomical
Cd PERSE Re a LER ea ER Ee cane ahr SB Ch Ba
© | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE nlREle] 17 FRR A HI
fo | TX Insufficient Date for Evaluation
4 & § AL, rl! {0 Unknown
a. 15 minutes one NE To W & riging
© 10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
3 Object round, size of grapefruit, Insufficient data for evaluation,
BF | color bright orange white even
[4 through clouds. Alt 5,000 feet.
- | Then abrupt clémb to disappearance.
| \ppeared in SW, WX was cloudy, light |
i | drizzle.
BE |
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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