36.55N 76.00(Atlantic), November 1953November 1953

Page 2 of the provided file is almost entirely illegible due to OCR corruption. Pages 3 and 4 contain scattered fragments that do not form coherent narrative content. Pages 5, 6, and 7 are index lists of other sightings from November and December 1953, not details of this specific case.

The only substantive information available is from Page 1, the cover sheet, which provides minimal details: a single object sighted from an aircraft on November 20, 1953, at coordinates in the Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. coast. The object was described as small, egg-shaped, and silver in color, observed at an estimated altitude of 55,000 feet for about five minutes. The Air Force evaluated it as a possible RAWIN balloon (a weather balloon equipped with radar reflectors used to measure upper-atmosphere winds). No photographs or physical evidence were collected.

The case file is too degraded in its substantive pages to support a detailed summary beyond the cover sheet information. The full case file, comprising 7 pages as held by the National Archives (microfilm T1206, Roll 20), is reproduced below.