Santa Maria, Calif, June 1955June 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, June 1955 in June 1955. The full case file (2 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, June 1955

Date of incident

June 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
26 June 55

2. LOCATION
Santa Maria, Calif

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

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Leed___27/0042 DUSK

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

5. PHOTOS
[] Yes
X[] No

6. SOURCE
civilain

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
25 min

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
2

9. COURSE

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Oblong. Gold color. Two together (side by side). No sound. Moved up and down.

11. COMMENTS
Identified as a balloon.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 28 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962539

Connected across the archive

Organizations

27TH ADIV DEF NORTON AFE CALIF 669TH ACURON PORIHUE CALIF AIR TECH INTELL CTR WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO DIR OF INTELL HQTRS USAF WASH D C

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Santa Maria Santa Maria, Calif