Santa Monica, California, December 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-12
- Location
- Santa Monica, 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 10 December 1956 Santa Monica, California 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local XxGround-Vi sual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft 10/0828Z D AirVisuol Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT_ 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE &xwas Astronomical Meteor Yes 口 Probably Astronomical XX No Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown threeto five sec two straight 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Two bright grey blue flat circular Description, duration, manner objs, size of ping pong balls. objs of disappearance indicate moved extremely fast on straight sighting was caused by meteor. flight path. obj passed out of sight in 3 to 5 seconds. ATIC FORM329 (REV 26SEP 52)
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