Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Project 10073 Record Card — Placerville, California, 3 August 1952
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AI-Generated Summary
This document is an Air Intelligence Information Report regarding a 1952 sighting of two unidentified bright objects by a GOC observer in Placerville, California. It concludes that there was insufficient data to identify the objects.
On August 3, 1952, at 2020 Pacific Daylight Time, an observer at a Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post in Placerville, California, reported sighting two bright, round objects. The observation lasted for approximately seven minutes. The witness estimated the objects were between 45 and 50 miles away from their position at an altitude of 3,000 feet. The report notes that the second object appeared to join the first one at a very close distance. The Air Intelligence Information Report, filed by 2d Lt. James W. Westbrook of the 28th Air Division at Hamilton AFB, states that there was no physical evidence, meteorological activity, or aircraft identified in the area that could account for the sighting. Weather conditions were reported as clear with 20-mile visibility. Captain Orville E. Bixel, the Director of Intelligence, concurred with the assessment that there was no information available to determine the identity of the objects. The report was subsequently forwarded to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
No information available to determine the identity of the sighted object.
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Official Assessment
No information available to determine the identity of the sighted object.
Two bright objects were observed for 7 minutes at an estimated altitude of 3,000 feet. No physical evidence, meteorological activity, or aircraft were identified in the area.
Witnesses
- [illegible]G.O.C. Post
Key Persons
- Orville E. BixelCaptain, USAF, Director of Intelligence