Orville, CaliforniaMay 1955

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Orville, California in May 1955. The full case file (4 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

Orville, California

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

- . a " " T—— EE ——— a hi FATA PATE 5A Ce AAR PS TMH ST A 2 (ye “
“Ring Mind
; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION "T12. CONCLUSIONS
0 ibd Mo
0 on : 13 nN 3 0 Probably Balloon
~—20 May 1955 | Orville, California _ In p5Nu) Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
J JERE Eel PI aM 0) RG round- Visual 0 Ground-Raodar = Probably Alrerets
GMT. 20/ AL RE 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
: O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
3 TTX No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
d 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |B. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ~~ |D, Otheree
3 "IX Insufficient Data for Evaluation
1 Si : 0 Unknown
| LEV RDeRRGN. 1 ene. BUARRORAYY (4 | LL
‘ 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
] One round, silver object, size of Due to brevity of sighting and
a silewer dollar held at arms length,| possibility of sighted object
j was observed to be standing still for being balloon no follow up
a period of five seconds. Object investigation, However, final
: faded from sight, evaluation that there is insuf-
: ficimt data for proper conclu-
sion,
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962172

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

California Orville Orville, CA

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-05-01