Lorain, OhioJuly 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On July 16, 1957, at about 5:15 a.m. local time, a civilian family of three in Lorain, Ohio reported a sighting. Their home was on the south side of an avenue running along Lake Erie.

The witnesses saw four dazzling white lights, very high above the earth and about the size of a baseball. At first they looked like brilliant stars over the lake to the northeast, then they were seen moving. The lights passed over the house heading southwest. The witnesses noted a plane from Cleveland Hopkins Airport passing over at the same time, which they used as a time check.

The Air Force record (Project 10073, its official file for unidentified flying object reports) lists the case as probably aircraft. The comment notes there was very little formation, but the objects could possibly have been aircraft.

Reported location

Lorain, Ohio

Date of incident

July 1957

State / country

OH / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

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) : Q PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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4 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: 0 Wos Balloon
: 16 July 19357 Lorain Yhio O Probobly Bolleon
~ | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Qelleen
p 0515 Lx : 4 O Wos Aircraft
4 i PEA Re RE EE GR 280 Ground-Visuol O Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircrofy
fF oMT__16/10157 0 Air Visual 0 Air-intercept Rodar Oc Possibly Aircraft
4 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomicol
O Yes 0 Probobly Astronomical
3 B'Ne Civilian (3) 0 Possibly Astronomical
4 7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE rm ER 0 Ee er NE a
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 : 5 Nb O Unknown
not given | four SW
3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
J Four dazzling white lights, exceedingly Very little formation, but
1 high, about the size of a baseball, could possibly by a/c.
4 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
EE EEE

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28970522