Northern California and Southern Oregon, May 1961
- Date of account
- 1961-05
- Location
- Northern California and Southern Oregon
- 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 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2..LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Northern California and 口 Was Balloon 1914761 Gouthern.Oceson 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOFOBSERVATION Locol 2015 Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircrof! [} ProbablyAireraft GMT_200415Z xAirVisual Air-lntercept Rador 口 Possibly Aireraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomical METEoR CYes Probabiy Astronomicol No Military and Civilian 口 PossiblyAstronomicol 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Orhar 口 InsufficientDato forEvaluation 口 Unknown 20 sec E-W 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ROUnd ball,SiZe Of l1. coMMENTsThis objt was observed fn quarter,reidish orange. Had smoke and contrai. videly seattered areas of Northern Cal Appoared 15°above horizon at aprox 27o°.Dis and Southern Oregon.Objt displayed all appeared 3°to 5°off horison. characteristics of meteor, and there is no data av
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