AKUREYRI ICELAND, October 1952October 1952

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Summary

On October 26, 1952, four or five spherical objects were reported flying at high speed over the northern coast of Iceland near Akureyri. Three civilian witnesses observed the objects from two separate locations. The objects had a spherical shape with round, non-flaring surfaces and were clearly visible for about two minutes. They flew in a northerly direction at great speed. Cloud base was at 600 to 1000 meters with no wind. The report was not transmitted electronically as the information was three days old. The source was a newspaper clipping. The Air Force evaluation is not stated in the available pages.

Reported location

AKUREYRI ICELAND, October 1952

Date of incident

October 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 16

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 26 Oct 52

2. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
GMT 25/0930 Z

3. PHOTOS
[] Yes
[X] No

4. LOCATION
AKUREYRI ICELAND

5. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
[X] Ground-Visual
[] Air-Visual

6. SOURCE
3 civilians

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE
4-5 S

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Four or five spherical-shaped objects were seen flying at high speed over the northern coast of Iceland. Observations were from two separate locations.

12. CONCLUSIONS
[] Was Balloon
[] Probably Balloon
[] Possibly Balloon
[] Was Aircraft
[] Probably Aircraft
[] Possibly Aircraft
[] Was Astronomical
[] Probably Astronomical
[] Possibly Astronomical
[X] Other
[X] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[] Unknown

11. COMMENTS
1. Source of information is newspaper clipping.

ATC FORM 329 (REV 16 SEP 53)

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