Newport Beach, Calif, August 1955August 1955

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 Newport Beach, Calif, August 1955 in August 1955. The full case file (2 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 23.

Reported location

Newport Beach, Calif, August 1955

Date of incident

August 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
17 Aug 55

2. LOCATION
Newport Beach, Calif

12. CONCLUSIONS
[X] Was Balloon
[  ] Probably Balloon
[  ] Possibly Balloon
[  ] Was Aircraft
[  ] Probably Aircraft
[  ] Possibly Aircraft
[X] Was Astronomical - Meteor
[  ] Probably Astronomical
[  ] Possibly Astronomical
[  ] Other
[  ] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[  ] Unknown

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local ___
GMT 1B/05052

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
[X] Ground-Visual    [  ] Ground-Radar
[  ] Air-Visual      [  ] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS
[  ] Yes
[X] No

6. SOURCE
Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
2 seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
1

9. COURSE
SE

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Round, blue white, no sound or trail, fast as jet, flying straight then faded.

11. COMMENTS
General details of sighting suggest possible meteor.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963210

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