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Fontana, California, August 1956

Date of account
1956-08
Location
Fontana, California
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 21 August 1956 Fontana, California 口 Probably Bolloon 口 Possi bly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Rodar 口 Was Aircraft Locel XRGroundVisuel Probobly Aircroft GMT. 22/0645Z Ai~Vi suol D Air-lntercopt Rador 口 Possibly Aircraft S.PHOTOS 口 Was Astronomicol oYo. 口 Probobly Astronomicol XONo Civilian (GoC) 口 Possibly Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OP OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Date forEvaluotion 口 Unkno wn two minutes one moving East 10.BRIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Description of sighting indicates One round red object,with a tail, the size of a basketball at arm's that object was probably a jet length. Object was moving in an a/c,the tail being the contrail easterly direction and disappeared of the jet. by fading into a fog.Object was observed visually for two

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