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Salton Sea, California, March 1955

Date of account
1955-03
Location
Salton Sea, California
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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UFOB INDEX CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUS1ONS 口 Was Balloon 16Larch 1955 Salton Saa,California ProbablyBalloon Possibiy Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOFOBSERVATION Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Wos Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft 16/17242 Maroh 1955 Air-Visual GMT. Air-InterceptRadar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomica! Yes 口 ProbablyAstronomical M1litary (Pilot) 口 Possibiy Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other 口 InsufficientData forEvaluation Three (3) Minutas Ono (2) Duo South 口 Unknown 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Objeot has charactaristics of a balloop. Ono (a) round, siaror objeot, tho sizo of a The faot that tho obsarvor saw the ob- dime hald at arm's longth,was observod by tha jeot for a pariod of only throo (s3) pilot of a B-47 typo a/e 30 miles north of tho nlnutas could bo accounted for by tho Salton S

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