Los Angeles, California & Vicinity, July 1960July 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Los Angeles, California & Vicinity, July 1960 in July 1960. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 39.

Reported location

Los Angeles, California & Vicinity, July 1960

Date of incident

July 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 39

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

3 YULTIPLE SIGHTING PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
: 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 ' 1 Ie) A : Was Balloon
i 31 July, 1960 Los ingeles, California & Vic Y Probably Balloon
3. OATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION W  TOEY Se
LR — 8%Ground- Vi sval O Ground-Rodor a ho Rg of
3 /c8L52Z O Possibly Aircraft
2 SEERA TDE O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rodor ossibly Alrerett
5 5. PHOTOS . c Wes Astronomiceol Meteor
E O Yes O Probably Astrenomicel
| XE No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
1 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CR | — —
i : O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
fF 3 seconds One Manuvcred 0 Unknown
4 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
3 sound eylindricel object with flat top and it has b en determined from interviews
i tearedrop shapsc colton coming to 2 slight | description and duration that the
| soint observe. for 3 seconds. Appearsd to object of this sighting was a meteor,
be green color with tail of red sparks. un occasion tas appearance of rising
Size of hulf-docllar to grapefruit at arm's is present and as the distance [ron
] length. doved very fast upwards tc about tne observer increases the object then
3 40 deg anu then downward in an are and has the appcarance of descent, Also
J lisap.sarad over the horizon evaluated meteor by astronorers at
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988051

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Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-07-01