Oxnard AFB, Calif, December 1956December 1956

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 Oxnard AFB, Calif, December 1956 in December 1956. 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 27.

Reported location

Oxnard AFB, Calif, December 1956

Date of incident

December 1956

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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“11. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
| oS > fxnard AFB, Calif 0 Wos Balloon
: 7 Si J) ST 5 0 Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 5 /ao asl belioon
j 4 0 Was Aircraft
20/0443% Dee 56 & Ground-Vi sual O Ground-Rador a Probably Aircraft
in a Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS BY é. SOURCE x: d Lis Astronomical
es ! 0 robably Astronomical
2 No Military ard Civilian (coe) O Possibly A Stranei cl
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other — oo :
0 O Insufficient D
2 to 5 ge ds U to 0 = (hagiil clon) ata for Evaluation
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS H
| One bluish white ball with +ail Object Concur with Reporting Office~ ‘hat
was seen on a straigh* flight path flashing this sighting as cavsed by a reteor. :
1 from Wes+ to Horthwes* and disappeared after
having been seen visually for 4 to 5 seconds,
; |
AISOP Form 5 (15 Oct 54) :

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28968715

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Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Oxnard AFB

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1956 1956-12-01