1 1/4 Mi E of Hampton, Va., March 1959March 1959

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 1 1/4 Mi E of Hampton, Va., March 1959 in March 1959. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 35.

Reported location

1 1/4 Mi E of Hampton, Va., March 1959

Date of incident

March 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 35

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10072 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
12 jhy 89 1 30k ia Ts aE re Tp : O Probably Balloon
mm TE-TIME GROUP rset Of Lupton, ve, oe
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Loca! ee ————— O.Ground-Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar g Pal Parc:
4A TS AYA ; :
GMT IMROR10) 4 0 AirVisuol O Air-Intercept Radar |D Possibly Airerafr
Efi ett
5. PHOTOS + SOURCE QO Wos Astronomical
O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
‘B'No Civiidan O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE oO Others 0) ted
O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
Sl) rin ER a O Unknown
10. BRIER SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS hl
walongated streaks, size of penell at Rellection of lights fm one of 3
] 2im's length, These were two streaks, one Pie 20581ble sonree 11st ah C
10-15 secs after the first, File is i
ATIC ForM 329 (REV 25 SZP 352)
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o Ee PS Sat SU le —
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28982460

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1959 1959-03-01