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Case FileNARA NAID 28969718 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

425 K North of Hunter AFB, PAApril 1957

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 425 K North of Hunter AFB, PA in April 1957. 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 27.

Reported location

425 K North of Hunter AFB, PA

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

PA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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22 April 1957 a 425 K North of Hunter AFB,¥A o il Biigen :
: 3. DATE-TiME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ~
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| GMT 0110 01287 20 Air- Vi suai 0 Air-Intercapt Radar | © Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS §. SOURCE ax Was Astronomical Comet
4 0D Yes a] Probably Astronomical
1 0 Ne military al Ged O Possibly Astronomicai .
; 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (Ji 0} | 7) aes Ft: Bot ye NE
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
: 18 minutes one IW SRE
3 10. BRIER SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: One object described as a pencil shape Probably Orend Leland comet,
: 5 inches long, bright star color, Obj
: had trail of light at 20 dgr angle of
A actual object. Object on a NW heading
traveling at a very high speed hovered
: wil th pradl of 19.ent,
9 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969718

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