Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Project 10073 Record Card - Fort Bragg, Calif. - 3 Aug 52
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A forest lookout in California reported multiple flat, four-foot-wide objects on August 3, 1952. Military aircraft were scrambled but found nothing, and the objects were officially attributed to weather balloons.
On August 3, 1952, at 1627 PDT, a forest lookout near Fort Bragg, California, reported observing an unidentified aerial object. The witness described the object as flat and approximately four feet in diameter. Within an hour of the initial sighting, the witness reported seeing several more of these objects in the area. Fighter aircraft were scrambled from Hamilton Air Force Base to investigate the report, but they were unable to make contact with any objects. A subsequent phone call received at 1655 PDT by a duty controller from a forest lookout official suggested that the objects were believed to be weather balloons. The weather conditions at the time of the sighting were reported as clear, and no sounds were heard from the objects. The estimated altitude of the objects was 5500 feet.
Forest lookout sighted flat object, four foot in diameter, sighted several more within an hour. Fighter a/c scrambled from Hamilton made no contact.
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Official Assessment
Believed to be weather ballons.
The objects were identified as weather balloons by the reporting duty controller.
Witnesses
- [illegible]Forest lookout
- [illegible]Forest lookout
Key Persons
- [illegible]Duty Controller