Bakersfield, California, August 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-08
- Location
- Bakersfield, 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 12.CONCLUSIONS 2.LOCATION 1.DATE 口 Wos Balloon 口 Probably Balloon Bakersfield,California 口 Possibly Balloon 10 August 1956 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Was Aircraft OGround-Vi sual D Ground-Radar 口 Probably Aircrof? Locol 口 Possibiy Aircraft AirVisuo! D Air-lntercopt Radar GMT_11/0400Z 口 Was Astronomico! 6.SOURCE 5.PHOTOS ProbabiyAstronomical OYes 口 Possibly Astronomica! P.No Civilian （Coc) 口 Orhor. 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS9. COURSE 口 Insufficiont Dota for Evoluotion 7.LENGTH OF CBSERVATION 口 Unknown stationary 4h hrs still in sight one 11.COMMENTS 10. SRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Concur with reporting ofricer One round bright object, size of a that this sighting was probably grapefruit at arm's lngth. Color was astronomical.Opinion of this red, white,and yellow.object obser sighting is probably planet Mars veo southeast portion of sky at Planet shining thr
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