Project 10073 Record Card — Red Bluff, California, 4 August 1952

This document is an Air Intelligence Information Report (IR-36-52 W) dated 7 August 1952, concerning a sighting of an unidentified flying object near Red Bluff, California, on 4 August 1952. The report details an observation made by two Ground Observer Corps (GOC) members, Mary Ann Barr and Alice Raecruft, who were stationed at a GOC post four miles west of Red Bluff. At approximately 0245 Pacific Daylight Time, the witnesses observed a single, round, bluish object traveling at a high rate of speed at an estimated altitude of 3,000 feet. The object was described as having no sound and being approximately the size of an automobile headlight. One witness later added that the object had a long orange tail. The observation lasted for approximately one minute. The weather conditions were reported as clear with visibility of 30 miles. The report notes that a United Air Lines DC-4 (UAL 458) was in the area shortly before the object appeared, but this did not explain the sighting. The report was prepared by 2d Lt. James W. Westbrook of the 28th Air Division at Hamilton AFB and concurred with by Captain Orville E. Bixel, Director of Intelligence. The official conclusion stated that no information was available to determine the identity of the sighted object. The document includes a completed observer questionnaire, which provides additional details such as the witnesses' positions and their certainty regarding the observation. The report is part of the Project Blue Book collection.