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Salona Beach, Calif., January 1955

Date of account
1955-01
Location
Salona Beach, Calif.
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 1.Salona Beach,Calif. 口 Was Balloon 11 January l955 2.Mt Laguna, Calif 口 ProbablyBalloon 口 PossiblyBalioon 3.DATE-TIMEGROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION XGround-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft Local 口 ProbabiyAircraft CMT_12/0145Z DAir-Visuol DAir-Intercept Radar 口 PossiblyAircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE XXWas Astronomical Meteor DYes ProbabiyAstronomical Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomicai XKNO 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBEROFOBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 1. 20 seconds 口 Insufficient Data forEvaluation 1. not rptd 口 Unknown 2. 5 seconds 1-2 west 1O.BRIEFSUMMARYOF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS 1.Shape of ball.Light blue.One Description & duration indicate splitting totwo. meteor.sighting. 2. Oblong w/tail.Size of pea.Blue and white light.No sound.Straight flight. ATICFORM329(REV26SEP52)

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