29 Mi SW Of Elmira, N.Y., December 1958December 1958

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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 29 Mi SW Of Elmira, N.Y., December 1958 in December 1958. The full case file (5 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 34.

Reported location

29 Mi SW Of Elmira, N.Y., December 1958

Date of incident

December 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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N - ‘ - . »
‘ ; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
I. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
RE 3 Span 5 O Was Bolloon
sie Dec snbeld’ L908 2 RW aE Blnrira NUY, 3 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Tom iE PRs sIbliCEAl Son
iid A 0 Was Aircraft
Local —_— 0 Ground- Visual DO Ground-Rodar OQ Probably Aircraft |
. aX; FONE VY =p. a & - H i —
GMT C2, 32 SAR ‘0%Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | 8. SOURCE C0 (Wes Astronomical 0 Loa
0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
O-No PT AE PCAN OD Possibly Astronomical
; d 4 AVE HE INS a hg) Fx lr Ha .
7. LENGTH OF. OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [2 oY] TC es AR Se |
: O Insufficiant Data for Evaluation
A 00 Unknown
not: given one fallin
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
dou nd obj, which left a long white Not decay, probably meteor,
tad, falling vertically under Foleris
which was due north of his position. ; :
Pilot believed obj was sputnik decay.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28981219

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-12-01