Palm Beach, FloridaJuly 1955

Unidentified

Summary

On July 1, 1955, near Palm Beach, Florida, a civilian witness reported a single conical, white light with a tail. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified flying object reports.

The light tapered smoothly to a point and looked blue-white in color. It appeared at about 10 degrees above the horizon, rose to 130 degrees, then disappeared at 10 degrees on the other side. The witness was described as reliable.

The Air Force noted the object crossed a major part of the sky in about 10 to 15 seconds. Because of this, officials concluded the witness probably saw a meteor. The case was marked as probably astronomical.

Reported location

Palm Beach, Florida

Date of incident

July 1955

State / country

FL / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

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| ; oY A UFCB INDEX CARD ee |
ESTIRL 1 4 TE ; A [SS=UFNR 2293 3 p% |
1. DATE ; 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
1 J : 0O Wos Balloon
| . : pi a Adil 14 aed |
| |'3. DATE-TIME GROUP a ATTO! Pl et |
| RR RR A SE RRR 2 Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodor Brotidlty ier :
i GMT 15 0313 2 3 3 108% O Air-Visudl O Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE : O Was Astronomical Ao eres
0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
No | . Possibly Astronomical |
"7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Lo OF B8IECTS | 9. COURSE : oT PRC ER
4 O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
: O Unknown fil
— Len fo filhean Seconds One (1) ——zSz io AWw — |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | OMMEN |
|| One (1) conical, white light with tail exhaust The observer of this sizhting was |
coming smoothly to point and blus-vhite in originally reportsd to be an observer
| | color Tas seen to appear at a 10 elevation of the sighting reported at Orlando, Fla |
! at 130 and to disappear at 10° elewation at at 15402002 July 1955, If the times are
310 , Witness reliable. correct this observer must have seen a|
| differant object. If this object crosshead |
3 a major portion of the sky in a period |
| 10-15 3econds it probably was astronomipal
; 7 in AALUre, Ta-the-—opind TS £ this. haa |
| the observer possibly 8aw a moteorisoy
| Pho bAb lr |
AISOP Form 5 (15 Oct 54) |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962851