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Case FileNARA NAID 28965322 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Albany, New YorkApril 1956

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 Albany, New York in April 1956. 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 25.

Reported location

Albany, New York

Date of incident

April 1956

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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[1 caTE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
1 2 OD Was Balloon
. [3 oATE-TikE GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
: Local CT pea XIX Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar 8 Banu
4 ont. 09703142 == = 0 AirVisual Q Air-Intercept Radar |B Possibly Airerolt
E 5. PHOTOS v 5. SOURCE By 16s Avironaiei cal
- ' i - .
3 ) His Civilian (CAA 0 Possibly diel og $)
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 1 Re NE
bE : D Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
] four to siz minutes one E to W o. imho
.  |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One star-like object at an azimuth of Star-like object seen at azimut
5 310 dgrs from the tower. The object of 310 degrees would give the
i faded over the horizon, Aircraft description of Venus and place
1 scrambled but pilot experienced no joy. the object at the same position
Seen through binoculars of unknown as Venus,
1 power,
1 ~ ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
ey RET EERE FERC Bele bal ne 5 : 5 +
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28965322

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