San Antonio, TexasJuly 1958

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Summary

On July 29, 1958, a civilian in San Antonio, Texas reported observing a round, flat object about the size of a basketball. The object hovered over South San Antonio and then headed north at a high rate of speed. The sighting lasted five minutes. One object was reported. The observation was made during daytime hours and was air-visual. The Air Force evaluated the sighting as probably aircraft based on available evidence, noting that aircraft were flying in the vicinity at the time of the report.

Reported location

San Antonio, Texas

Date of incident

July 1958

State / country

TX / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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PROJECT 1073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 29 Jul 58
2. LOCATION: San Antonio, Texas
3. DATE-TIME GROUP: [illegible]
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [X]Ground-Visual [ ]Ground-Radar [ ]Air-Visual [ ]Air-Intercept Radar
5. SOURCE: Civilian
6. PHOTOS: [X]Yes [ ]No
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 5 mins
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
9. COURSE: North
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Rnd, flat obj, size of basketball. Obj hovered over South San Antonio a while then headed North at a high rate of speed.
11. CONCLUSIONS: [ ]Definitely Astronomical [ ]Probably Astronomical [ ]Possibly Astronomical [ ]Was Aircraft [ ]Probably Aircraft [ ]Possibly Aircraft [ ]Other [ ]Insufficient Data for Evaluation [ ]Unknown
12. COMMENTS: Probably a/c.

[Bottom portion contains handwritten routing information and form number AFTO FORM 329 (REV 24 SEP 52)]

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