Marrero, L.A., February 1957February 1957

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Summary

On February 13, 1957, several civilians at Marrero, Louisiana, reported three objects over the area. The sighting was relayed through the Coast Guard to Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The objects showed one white light and one red flashing light, with the red light compared to a sparkler.

The objects were seen circling over the Huey P. Long Bridge and Marrero at high altitude, in a V formation that changed to a straight line. They were estimated at about five miles altitude. The objects appeared to hover at first, then accelerated and disappeared when two aircraft came into the area. Moisant Airport radar detected nebulous targets. The event ran from about 8:20 p.m. to 9:43 p.m.

The Air Force noted that many Air National Guard aircraft were making approaches to Moisant from various directions at the time. The card said the described traits and maneuvers were generally those of aircraft, and the heavy air traffic gave strong support to that conclusion. The evaluation given was probably aircraft.

Reported location

Marrero, L.A., February 1957

Date of incident

February 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

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j PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD her’ |
; I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
B h AR. . O Was Balloon
13 February 1957 Marrero, L.A. = giobanty Ee 2a
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0) Eos sity BE oan
: 00 i i 0 Was Aircraft
Fry ELRANTRDY  € 1 OF § IN Re) CX Bround- Vi sual L:Ground-Redar {@ Probably Aircraft
1 GMT ] 1 /{ ) 24 x 17-034 07 o Air Visual Oo Air-Intercept Radar a Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS 5 . SOURCE O Was Astronomicol
3 QO Yes a Probably Astronomical
g a No Airport observers 0 Possibly Astronomical
i 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BORE aR EL
: Aah O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
i j ; 0 Unknown
3 1 hr, 40 mins three maneuvering {
4 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
| Three objects - one white light, one The characteristics and maneuvers} |
4 red light, Red light appeared as described are generally those { 1
J sparkler, Objects circling in V forma-| of a/c. The fact that there were
tion, Est alt 5 miles, i numerous ANG a/c making approaches } | |
: from various areas gives strong i
: support to this conclusion, gd
4 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28968971