NW of San Angelo, Tex, October 1955October 1955

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from NW of San Angelo, Tex, October 1955 in October 1955. The full case file (5 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 24.

Reported location

NW of San Angelo, Tex, October 1955

Date of incident

October 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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EEE PROJECT 10073 RECORD. CARD. |
i. fuoare T 2 LOCATION 1. yu of San Angelo,Tex |'> CONCLUSIONS |
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~. pkooct 55 2. 50 Miles N of ‘Del Rio, Texas O Wes Balloon ~*~ |
4 : : 0 Probably Balloon |
© 3. OATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION |i Sows, ayioen |
f be: Local —_— +O Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Roador : a ‘Probably Averaft 3
= 8 GMT X XX Air Visual O Air-Intercept Roder 0 Possibly Aircraft
~ + ]5. PHOTOS : LoL JE CREAT : STA 5 Was A ical RE
a. O¥er | : 15 Brakably Aeliheaten 2 |
E I 5 3 Neo : z : 7 oh O Possibly Astronomical i
©. | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION "| 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE _ 0 Obeid og oly | |
E To FY Ran, : 3 0 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation i
. live seconds e + Wto E . {8 Unknown :
b- i JEnirty s ond; ¥ |
© ~.jlo. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS |
. °° [L. One reddish-orange fireball, size of a dime : Meteor sighting. +
.  -jpeld at arms length, left a white smoke trail == Ei
nC as curving towards the earth. Appeared to burn > i
"© -. jout in brilliant flash. |
FE 2. One blazing light moving easterly and de- 4 s |
{ .«  |scending. Orange in color and appeared to obser
|. [vers to compare to blazing and falling a/c.
- Observers searched area with negative results.
1 _ . ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2) :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963933

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Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

NW of San Angelo

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-10-01