Orville, California, May 1955
- Date of account
- 1955-05
- Location
- Orville, California
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source page 1
Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 20 May.1955 Orville,California 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Xround-Visual Ground-Rodar 口 Was Aircraft Local 口 Probably Aircraft GMT_20/1711Z D Air-Visual Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE D Was Astronomical OYes 口 Probably Astronomical XKNo Civilian D Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE D Other_ Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown five seconds one stationary 1O. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One round, silver object, size of Due to brevity of sighting and a siloer dollar held at arms length possibility of sighted object was observed to be standing still fof being balloon no follow up a period of five seconds. object investigation. However,final faded from sight. evaluation that there is insu
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