UFO Index Card and Incident Report — Long Beach, California, November 1957

This document consists of a series of military communications and an index card regarding a UFO sighting reported on November 7, 1957, in Long Beach, California. The witness, a telephone operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company, reported observing a single, round, silver object, approximately the size of a basketball, moving in a southwest direction. The observation lasted for approximately 13 minutes. The witness also noted a ring of light around the object. Upon receiving the report, the Officer of the Day and the Airdrome Officer attempted to locate the object but were unsuccessful, seeing only a lone star. The report was processed by the 27th Air Division Defense and forwarded to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Capt. F. W. Brown, the Duty Controller, concluded that the object was a balloon, noting that a balloon was tracked in the same position on the same night. An additional comment from ATIC suggests that astronomical bodies viewed through haze, smoke, or fog can appear strange to observers. The weather conditions at the time were described as having a high overcast with haze and smoke.