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Oakland, California, March 1957

Date of account
1957-03
Location
Oakland, California
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Record summary

Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon 18.Margh.1957 Oakland:California Probably Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION 口 Possibly Balloon Local. XGround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft CMT_20/0252Z AinVi sual Air-intercapt Rador 口 Possibly Aireraft S.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE OYes 口 Was Astronomical 口 Probably Astronomical XONo. Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical ALENCTH OP OBSERYATICN 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation unknown oe southwesterly 口 Unknown IO. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One firey orange object moving in a A limited investigation assigned Southwesterly direction. Object moved/ Det1on20Mar57revealed atan approximate speed of 500-600 MPH this sighting to have been caused by a weather balloon released from Oakland airport 22 minutes previous to the sighting. AT1C FORM 329(REV 2

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