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Bakersfield, California, April 1955

Date of account
1955-04
Location
Bakersfield, California
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROIECT10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 6 April 1955 Bakersfield,California 口 ProbablyBolloon 4.TYPEOFOBSERVATION 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP Loca! XGround-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft 口 ProbablyAircraft CMT.07/0530Z DAir-Visual Air-lnterceptRadar 口 PossiblyAircroft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 WosAstronomicalJupiter OYes 口 Probabiy Astronomical MxPossiblyAstronomical iio 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBEROFOBJECTS 9.COURSE □.Othar approx l5 mins 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown still in sight one stationary 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One bright light,approx the size At time of sighting,planet of a dime held at arm's length, with Jupiter was high in southwestern no sound,& blinking "like a star" sky.Moon was full & rather low was observed to romain motionless in sky at time of sighting. in the sky by a housewife. Sighting Suggest

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