Valley City, N. Dakota, December 1956December 1956

Insufficient Data

Summary

On December 1, 1956, a round object slightly larger than a baseball was reported near Valley City, North Dakota. The object was red to orange in color and located approximately five miles away at about 1,000 feet altitude. A civilian witness observed the object for 15 minutes. It exhibited rapid movements up and down and side to side, and also hovered. When a police car approached, the object rapidly disappeared to the west. Police and Valley City airport personnel lost radio contact with the station at Jamestown, South Dakota during the incident. Contact was regained after the object left the area. The Air Force evaluation is listed as unknown.

Reported location

Valley City, N. Dakota, December 1956

Date of incident

December 1956

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 1 December 1956
2. LOCATION: Valley City, N. Dakota
3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local [blank], GMT 01/0720Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual
5. PHOTOS: No
6. SOURCE: Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 15 minutes
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
9. COURSE: West
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: One object round, slightly larger than a baseball. Color red to orange at approx 1000 ft altitude. Object had rapid movements up, down, sideways and hovered. Upon approach of police car obj rapidly disappeared to West. As police got closer to obj, they lost radio contact with station at Valley City. Valley City also lost contact with Jamestown, S.D.
11. COMMENTS: All radio contact was regained after object left the area. Association between obj & radio contact established. Insufficient data-No data not submitted.& positional info on obj not included.
12. CONCLUSIONS: [X] Unknown

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28968526