Santa Rosa, TexasNovember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On November 25, 1957, at 1:05 p.m., a witness in Santa Rosa, Texas, observed a round object about the size of a baseball, brown in color, with binoculars. The object appeared to have white wisps coming from it. The witness reported the object remained still in sight for three hours, moving toward the west. A GOC observer reported one object. The Air Force concluded the sighting was probably astronomical, possibly Venus.

Reported location

Santa Rosa, Texas

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
25 November 1957

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
GMT 25/20:45Z

2. LOCATION
Santa Rosa, Texas

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

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

5. SOURCE
GOC Observer

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
Still in sight/3 hrs

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
West

6. PHOTOS
D Yes

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Round object size of a baseball, brown with binoculars, white whith-out then.

11. COMMENTS
Vanus.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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