Taft, California area, January 1959
- Date of account
- 1959-01
- Location
- Taft, California area
- 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 4Jan59 Taft,California area 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possidly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF CBSERVATION Ground-Visual Ground-Rador 口 Was Aircraft Local 口 Probably Aircraf! GMT 05/0730Z OAinVisuol Air-lntercopt Rador 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomical iMeteor OYs 口 Probably Astronomicol 口 O.No Possibly Astronomical Civilian 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evoluation 4-5 seconds 口 Unknown one SW to NE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Oval obj,size of basketball at 50 to 100 Description and time duration yards.Silver in color.Looked like a ball o is characteristic of a meteor. fire with silver tail and a longer trail coning from underneath.Obj had constant flight level. AT1C PORM 329 (REV 26SRP S2)
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