Salamanca, New YorkAugust 1958

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On August 2, 1958, a man working in a tower at Salamanca, New York, reported seeing thousands of silver-colored objects falling from the sky at about 6:00 p.m. He described pieces several hundred feet wide that glittered in the sunlight. He did not see or hear any plane. He collected samples and mailed one to the Air Force. The pieces looked as if they had been through heat or an explosion, and several men said they felt a tingle when they touched them.

The Air Force ran a spectrographic analysis on the metal sample. The composition closely matched a type of aluminum sheet stock. Because the sample was ductile and could be bent by hand, it was judged to be sheet stock, not cast. The Air Force conclusion on the Project 10073 record card was that the objects were radar chaff that had been burned. Project 10073 was the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Salamanca, New York

Date of incident

August 1958

State / country

NY / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

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: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
. " 0 Wos Balloon i |
2 August 1958 Salamanc Ne O Probably Bolloon :
3. DATE-TIME GROUP % TYPE OF OBSERVATION DO Possibly Belloon |
locale | BXGrund Vis O Ground-Redor Pay Rovere |
ont 02/2300Z FY 0 Air Visual QO Air-Intercept Rader O Possibly Aircraft |
5. ‘PHOTOS o 3 O Was Astronomical |
QO Yes O Probably Astronomical
No Civili 3 O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION " NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Co SE NLLE EU ———
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation |
43 O Unknown i |
noc rptd thousands tatlinz: |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1). COMMENTS |
« Sample of foil sent for analysis, Spectrograrhic analysis showed |
Thousands observed falling over objs to be Radar chaff similar
area about several hundred feet to 2S Al as specific under
wide, Glittered while in air, Pieces AMS 4001-b sheet stock,
looked as though they were subjected
to heat, Additional witnesses insist
that ti.ey feel a tingle when they
touch the objects.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28979175