32.17.9N 117.22W, March 1963March 1963

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 32.17.9N 117.22W, March 1963 in March 1963. The full case file (6 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 47.

Reported location

32.17.9N 117.22W, March 1963

Date of incident

March 1963

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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1 : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
Ek 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

FE ; O Wos Balloon

i 27 March 1963 32. 17 .9N 117.22W n] Probably Bolloon

i 3. DATE-TIME GROUP "| 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION a ROESI YY alan

4 Ba 1 77 JR ARR Re ER NE Ea XXGround- Visual O Ground-Rador a eH Cad RS

E GMT 28/02247 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

EF I be Loca 0 BRIVIS oS DIEINerCepY Nae

3 5. PHOTOS : é. SOURCE 0O Was Astronomical

E- O Yes [n] Probably Astronomical

3 No Militar O Possibly Astronomical ye wo
|Z 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE AXOther_Satellite (7 7
= } O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
5 O Unknown

3 ys Y minutes one East :
a 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

E Circular object illuminated like star|, -ESHo~date—hot-avatiable.

E no a/c lights observed while taking Sighting eharacteristic of

1 navigational star sightings. Object satellite observation and

4 in straight flight from Hast to Vast. case evaluated as a satellite.

E Sighted through BX and sextant, yw ;

E I: : i dr Z . ‘ ; ETE
E Considdred probable satellite by 4 : ; ,

3 witnesses, bo 04s tg § FRA lois pr

2 as ? AY 2 “ 4 He y. < ya A #2 ALN Es 4 of 2 yi

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2 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) Xe

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29000492

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1963 1963-03-01