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Fontana, California, March 1957

Date of account
1957-03
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 Bailoon 17 Mareh 1957 Fontana,California Probabiy Balloon 口 Possibly Balioon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual Ground-Rador 口 Was Aircraft Locai 口 Probably Aircroft GMT_18/0022Z Air-Visuai D Air-lntorcopt Radar 口 Possibiy Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomicai DYos 口 Probobly Astronomical Civilian 口 Possibiy Astronomicai COKNo 7.LENGTH OF OSSERVATICN 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othsr. 口 Insufficiont Dota for Evaluotion 口 Unknown three or four mins one hovering 1O,BRIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One cigar shaped object with a large Description,hovering ,flight red light on it.object was seen hover- path indicate that this sighting ing over March AFB, then started movingl was probably caused by a balloon. and faded out. Object was seen visually for 3or 4minutes. ATICFORM329(REV 2692P 32)

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