New Orleans, La., November 1957November 1957

Insufficient Data

Summary

On November 18, 1957, a civilian in New Orleans, Louisiana, reported a ground-visual sighting of one blimp-shaped object. The object appeared to be a cluster of lights with a soft red-orange tint and showed no motion or sound. It hovered for one and one half minutes. The object was observed from a location adjacent to River Road. The sighting lasted one and one half minutes. Comments in the file indicate the description, duration, and flight path suggest the sighting was possibly caused by an aircraft.

Reported location

New Orleans, La., November 1957

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

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UFOB INDEX CARD AISB-UFOB-440-57

1. DATE: 18 Nov 57

2. LOCATION: New Orleans, La.

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: 06/0400Z Nov 57

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual

5. PHOTOS: No

6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: One and one half minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One

9. COURSE: Hovered

13. CONCLUSIONS: [Checkbox options listed: Was Balloon, Probably Balloon, Possibly Balloon, Was Aircraft, Probably Aircraft, Possibly Aircraft, Was Astronomical, Probably Astronomical, Possibly Astronomical, Other, Insufficient Data for Evaluation, Unknown]

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: One blimp shaped object that appeared to be a cluster of lights with soft red-orange tint. Object was seen hovering for 1 minutes.

11. COMMENTS: Description, duration, flight path indicate that this sighting was possibly caused by an aircraft.

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