Torrance, California, March 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-03
- Location
- Torrance, 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 text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 17 March.1956 Torrance,California Probably Bo!loon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local XKGround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft 口 ProboblyAircroft 18/0415Z DAir-Visual Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT. 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE KxWas Astronomical VenuS DYes 口 Probably Astronomicai 只No Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othsr. 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown one.hour,thirteen_minl one see description 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One object, round when standing still Discounting initial azimuth, but "fish-shaped" when turning.Like object conforms with character- a street light at times,like star at istics of Venus observation. other times. First seen at 2l0 dgr 45 dgr elevation. Disappoared at 270 dgr,45 dg
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