INDEPENDENT FIELD ARCHIVE
Department of War / Catalina Island, California
Unresolved UAP Report, Catalina Island, 1955
- File
- DOW-UAP-D177
- Agency
- Department of War
- Date
- 15 March 1955
- Place
- Catalina Island, California
- Format
The file contains a report by Paul J. Carr of Avalon, California, who reported observing a bright orange object, approximately the size of a nickel held at arm’s length, on the evening of March 15, 1955. The provisional assessment associated with the report includes a comment from the preparing officer that the sighting is possibly astronomical, and that the incident did not warrant further investigation.
The file itself
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