Alert, Ellesmere Island, February 1955February 1955

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 Alert, Ellesmere Island, February 1955 in February 1955. The full case file (5 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 22.

Reported location

Alert, Ellesmere Island, February 1955

Date of incident

February 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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9 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
B [
: 0 Vas Balloon
i __15 Februay 1955 | Alert, Fllesmere Island _ |0 Probably Balloon
3 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Fousitly Bulteen
1 a ig AL HX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rudar 0 Rel SUR
1 CMT_=_ 13507 TE RE, o Air- Vi sual 2 to Air-Intercept Radar (X¥Possibly Aircraft
g 5. PHOTOS BH REE REE BRE Ye TV] Tel 5 SR Saas Astronomical
EL O Yes 0 Probably Astronomicol
] Bae Warde 0 Possibly ARI NIRe :
E 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0, Other Soa? Tare 1 4S
b 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
; 0 Unknown :
1 CEERI TE ES SR TO ) (| ORS Conant 1-11 CEE SA oO
3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11. COMMENTS
E Contrail sightings by RCAF weather Possibly formed by a/c.
i! station,
E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961245

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Alert

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-02-01