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Case FileNARA NAID 28975564 · T1206 Roll 31

Project Blue Book Case File

Atlanta, GeorgiaDecember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Atlanta, Georgia in December 1957. 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 31.

Reported location

Atlanta, Georgia

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

GA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12, CONCLUSIONS
DO Wos Balloon
1 December 1957 Atlanta, Georgia g grohaiy Betioen
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Sra maton
: 501 ee ay DE RRO x9 Ground-Vi sual O Ground-Radar E) bi Tadd Gath
GUT 24008070. Lo O Air Visuol O Air-Intercept Radar |B Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS 3. SOURCE ; RX Was Astronomical Vega
al O Yes e Erobatey quténanies
3- Ne "ivitian Possibly Astronemica
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BY: Othep ctu Sania iing elit dic
8 Tut sent Dota for Evaluation i
. . . nknown
110 mins/still in sizht one downward
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Round object, larger than a star, Vega in location given by obscervefl.
bluish halo, ruby red. 25 dgr eleva-
tion in NW,
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
1 : /
b! 3 . . ! 4 }
Ek SERNA Sra a mA Ba AYE NBT REE FR RES SASF shes ; ¥ \ Voki
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975564

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Places

Atlanta, GAGeorgia

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19571957-12-01

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