Black Smighport, PennsylvaniaAugust 1957

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Black Smighport, Pennsylvania in August 1957. 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 28.

Reported location

Black Smighport, Pennsylvania

Date of incident

August 1957

State / country

PA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS :
; |0 Was Balloon
i 22 August 1957 Black Smighport, Pennsylvani@ Probably Balicon
1 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION &: Fossibly Belson
4 [177 ApS er A XR Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar he ee og SEN
: GMT 22/19087% 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
E 5. PHOTOS - SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
: 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
; No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE RL RRA i
(m] Hr cent Data for Evaluation
Oo nknown
very short two S toNorth
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Two round silver objects the size of Description, duration, flight path

a large ball, Objects were seen moving | indicate that this sighting was

from South to North and were in sight probably caused by aircraft.

for a very short time,

N : cj £13
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971335

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Black Smighport Black Smighport, PA Pennsylvania

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-08-01