Point Arguello, CaliforniaOctober 1956

Unidentified

Summary

On October 19, 1956, at Point Arguello, California, a civilian witness observed one small round object with red, white, and green coloring. The object was initially sighted at 45 degrees azimuth and moved moving rapidly. It moved out of sight at 45 degrees azimuth after being observed through binoculars for five minutes. The sighting lasted five minutes total. The observation was ground-visual. The Air Force evaluation was unidentified.

Reported location

Point Arguello, California

Date of incident

October 1956

State / country

CA / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
19 October 1956

2. LOCATION
Point Arguello, California

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local _______________
GMT 19/0322Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
X Ground-Visual     Ground-Radar
Air-Visual     Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS
Yes
X No

6. SOURCE
Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
five minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
northeast

12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon
Was Aircraft
X. Probably Aircraft
Possibly Aircraft
Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical
Other_______________
Insufficient Date for Eveluation
Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
One small round object, red, white, and green in color. Object was initially sighted at 45 dgr azimuth & was moving rapidly. Object moved out of sight at 45 dgr azimuth after having observed visually & through binoculars for five minutes.

11. COMMENTS
Details and duration of sighting. Vindicated that sighting was probably caused by an A/C

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28967962