Santa Maria, Calif, July 1955July 1955

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Santa Maria, Calif, July 1955 in July 1955. The full case file (3 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 23.

Reported location

Santa Maria, Calif, July 1955

Date of incident

July 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
22 JUL 55

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Lost 1530 PDT
OUT 22/2230 Day

2. LOCATION
Santa Maria, Calif

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual ☑  Ground-Radar ☐
Air-Visual ☐  Air-Intercept Radar ☐

13. CONCLUSIONS
☐ Was Balloon
☒ Probably Balloon
☐ Possibly Balloon
☐ Was Aircraft (SKIMP)
☐ Probably Aircraft
☐ Possibly Aircraft
☐ Was Astronomical
☐ Probably Astronomical
☐ Possibly Astronomical
☐ Other__Poss Blimp__
☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation
☐ Unknown

6. SOURCE
Civilian

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
1

9. COURSE
unk

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Long, no wings, silver, no sound.

11. COMMENTS
Poss Navy Blimp

ATC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962903

Connected across the archive

People

MAJOR PEELER S/SGT Ronald Detholder

Organizations

669TH ACURON PORT HUENEME CALIF AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OHIO COMDR 27TH ADIV DEF NORTON AFB CALIF COMDR ENT AFB COLORADO SPRINGS COLO

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Santa Maria Santa Maria, Calif