75 Mi SE Pt. Tuna Bahamas Riviera Beach, Fla., December 1959December 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 75 Mi SE Pt. Tuna Bahamas Riviera Beach, Fla., December 1959 in December 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 37.

Reported location

75 Mi SE Pt. Tuna Bahamas Riviera Beach, Fla., December 1959

Date of incident

December 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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Bi PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE a OAT ION RT Tg BONGLEIBNS ry
¥5 mi SE Pt. Tuna Bahamas oH TY TR
2 De < 4 2 in ; 3 Probably Balloon
Boy or 20D 20.59... iRiviera Beach, Fla. = == 00 Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Hs i 0 Was Aircraft
Local : XM Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
CMT 08/1 9 1.62 Lorie 0 Air Visual 0 Air-lntarcept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
: cfd 0 Probably Astronomical
| hd £1 No Militar a 9 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE @ Other Missile
OQ Insufficient Dato for Evoluation
7 0 Unknown
2 mins one SE 3
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING : 11. COMMENTS 2
| "|Several rpts. ObJ traveling fm IW to SE fm Atlas missile launched fn Cape Canaveral
‘|Cape Canaveral. Very high alt. Disappeared or |at 98/1910Z considered as the obd viewed
appeared to flame out after two mins observation. |
gi ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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: SER Bese SAAR AA CN sh ERE 08 eT Si 5 z :

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28985525

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1959 1959-12-01