Liberty, PennsylvaniaJanuary 1957

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Summary

On January 19, 1957, a civilian near Liberty, Pennsylvania, reported a single object. The sighting was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The object was white and round and looked about the size of a basketball at arm's length.

The object showed four white trails until it was almost out of sight, then four more trails appeared. It was first seen at 20 degrees elevation and disappeared at 10 degrees elevation while traveling southeast. The object seemed to roll as it neared the far end of its path. It was watched for three to five minutes.

The Air Force agreed with the reporting officer and concluded the sighting was caused by a high flying B-52 aircraft in the area.

Reported location

Liberty, Pennsylvania

Date of incident

January 1957

State / country

PA / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

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4 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
4 area er 8 SA NE TP 407 ened See Pe 7% BA 8 RE ree Wr eI Ph 4 et a ei 0 re Pre 0 3 et et 8
0 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
E : { A § 00 Was Balloon
A 19 January 1957 Liberty, Pennsylvania! 0 Probably Balloon
I 3 DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Bo nosy. Balloeh
i fed 55 : 5 43 Wos Aircraft
1 (r-yp dB pe TAN Ti Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
: oMT___19/292307 0 Air- Visual D Air-Intercept Rada, | 0 Possibly Aircraft
EE 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
9 CO Yes O Probably Astronomical
E- HNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
| 7. LENGYH OF O3SERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE  |O Other—
E 8) Patiicient Data for Evaluation -
fi ; 0 Unknown
h: 3 to 5 minutes one Seutheasterly i
lL 10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
i Concur with Reporting Officer
iF One white and 13 4 he si ited . SEITE 3 Li
Mrulade round fn) ih gai Of 8 that this sighting was caused by
4 raskethal arm's length. Four white Nd i Aide oi
3 askeths 1 at arm 8 io Rn REEL a high flying B-52 in the area,
trails were visible until object was i
4 almest out of sight, then four more
E were visible. Object was first seen
[oo at 20 dgr elevation, 330 dgr azimuth,
4 and disappeared at 10 dgr elevation
i 90 dgr azimuth, Object was seen travel-
1 ing in a SE direction. Object appeared
i to, roll as it approached the far end
4 O' flight path, Object was seen visually -
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FE for 3 to 0 minutes,
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