Philippines, November 1957November 1957

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Summary

On November 5, 1957, an unidentified object was sighted near Camp O'Donnell in the Philippine Islands. Five military and civilian witnesses observed the object from 8:10 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. hotel time through binoculars. The object appeared perfectly round and emitted a white light resembling metal reflecting moonlight. It had a magnitude of about 6.0 compared to known stars. The object did not move in the sky. No clouds were near it. The observation lasted ten minutes. The Air Force evaluation is not provided in these pages.

Reported location

Philippines, November 1957

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
6 November 1957

2. LOCATION
Philippines

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
GMT 05/2010Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
X Ground-Radar
[] Air-Visual
[] Ground-Visual
[] Air-Viewed

5. PHOTOS
[] Yes
XX No

6. SOURCE
Civilian & Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
10 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
1

9. COURSE
Stationary

12. CONCLUSIONS
[] Was Balloon
[] Probably Balloon
[] Possibly Balloon
[] Was Aircraft
[] Probably Aircraft
[] Possibly Aircraft
X[] Was Astronomical
[] Probably Astronomical
[] Possibly Astronomical
[] Other
[] Insufficient Date for Evaluation
[] Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Sunday object reported perfectly round & white light such as metal reflecting moonlight.

11. COMMENTS
An astro 1:01 and charts show Venus to be in exact location. Venus is not very bright this year. looks very large this year.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28973408