Oakland, CaliforniaMarch 1955

Unidentified

Summary

In 1955, in the Oakland Bay area of California, a ground observer on duty reported a round object. It was about the size of a pin head held at arm's length and silver in color. A B-47 type aircraft was in the air at the time, near the location of the sighting.

An air division intelligence officer gave the opinion that the sighting was caused by a reflection from the B-47, which was coming in over the water for a landing approach.

The case is recorded under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Oakland, California

Date of incident

March 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
3 a DE rn Si tetas iat ——————  ——————————————————————— ——— SO nO AES SE CR A BL aS Er ee Car Eh TE SR SN ER Ns |
1. DATE 2. LOCATION £ CONCLUSIONS
| Waa i = aE : | Was Bolloon
28 March 1955 Oakland, California | Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION TT | 0 Possibly Balloon
. xt Ground-Vis 0 Ground-Rad RIX Yas Aircraft
local ep EER EET os FE ENO KL Lr und- Visual Ground-Radar (@] Probably Aircraft
3 MT 29/19 107 Ee ei st uty 0 Air- Visual [J Air-lntercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
1 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
{ SAREE ne 0 Possibly Astronomical !
| El ERR avd ian GOOG ahsarvet.
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CR) RIA ee Ce
| 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
5 a : Fan 0 Unknown
approx 30 seconds one NH
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One round object, size of a pin head D/1 28th ADIV gave the opinion
held st arm's length, silver in color,| that sighting was caused by a
was observed by a GOC Observer while reflection from stated B-47
on duty in the Oakland Bay area, A B-4f aircraft which was coming in ;
type aircraft was in the air at the tifie over the water for a landing
lof the sighting, near the location of pho approach,
sighting, |
No Report In File,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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