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Project 10073 Record Card — Loomis, California, 31 August 1952

📅 31 August 1952 📍 Loomis, California 🏛 Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) 📄 Sighting report and military teletype
LoomisCaliforniaGround Observer Corps1952Project 10073UAP

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TL;DR

Ground Observer Corps personnel in Loomis, California, reported a small, silent, red, white, and blue light moving vertically at 5,000-6,000 feet on August 31, 1952. The report was filed under Project 10073 for intelligence evaluation.

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and an associated military teletype report regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting in Loomis, California, on August 31, 1952. The sighting occurred between 0400 and 0500 PDT. The object was observed by Ground Observer Corps (GOC) personnel stationed at posts referenced as PJ 4949 and PJ 4647, located between Newcastle and Roseville, California. The witnesses described the object as a small light displaying red, white, and blue colors. The object was reported to have moved in an up-and-down motion and emitted no sound. The estimated altitude of the object was between 5,000 and 6,000 feet. Weather conditions at the time were reported as clear. The report confirms that no photographs were taken, no radar contact was established, and the object made no sound. The documentation was processed by the 26th Air Division at Hamilton Air Force Base and forwarded to the Director of Intelligence at HQ USAF and the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

ONE SMALL LIGHT; COLORED RED, BLUE , AND WHITE. MOVED UP AND DOWN AND EMITTED NO SOUND.

Official Assessment

The object was observed by Ground Observer Corps personnel between 0400 and 0500 PDT on 31 August 1952. It was described as a small light, colored red, white, and blue, which moved up and down and made no sound.

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