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Case FileNARA NAID 28981352 · T1206 Roll 34

Project Blue Book Case File

Berkeley, CaliforniaDecember 1958

Unidentified

Summary

The OCR quality of this document is too poor to support an accurate summary. While the file contains 25 pages of scanned material related to unidentified flying objects sighted in Berkeley, California and Little Rock Air Force Base in December 1958, large portions of the text are garbled, illegible, or fragmented due to OCR errors. Critical sections describing the observations, witness interviews, and investigation findings are sufficiently corrupted that paraphrasing them would risk introducing inaccuracies not present in the original document.

The Air Force evaluated at least one of these cases as "unidentified" according to the legible cover sheet, and correspondence indicates investigation of weather balloons as a possible explanation. However, the specific details of what witnesses observed, their precise testimony, and the complete investigative analysis cannot be reliably extracted from this OCR text.

Readers seeking accurate information about these December 1958 sightings should consult the original microfilm (T1206, Roll 34) held by the National Archives, as this digitized version does not provide sufficient clarity for a responsible summary.

Reported location

Berkeley, California

Date of incident

December 1958

State / country

CA / US

Page count

25 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 25
Transcribed text
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: ; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
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l. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
0. Was Balloon
| Davember. 1059 I Lp TH dH a 0 Probably Balloon
—— ATE le ae eee PR ih a pb i [3 |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Hi cEowsiElygoeslotn |
1490 cm Rae SVL 3 0 Was Aircraft
Eoeailitnod leq Tamil ch ios o Ground hes) ig OD Ground-Radar OQ Probably Aircraft |
: FARR C1 YE oH > LOR Xe 0 Air Waval' 8 13 0 Air-Intercapt Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS ER Te Was Astianombaal
; 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
B No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
ee A LS SN i Ce 0, TC SL 2 SA 7
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (1 eo} Y ae EE SH
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
RA i : 0 Unknown
Lea Uo mInutes Four wtationary
aru 0 pe ptatdonary., do cn
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One large obj revolved as a disc 5 Check revealed that a balloon is
color of Venus y W/three smaller reieased daily at Metrovoli tan
objs above & a streak below. Oakland International Airpor Aye
1600 hours. Prevail ing winds at j
g the time would have carried
Palloon on approx course of
: sighting
ATIC FORM 229 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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