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Case FileNARA NAID 28964978 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Bongrock, New JerseyFebruary 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 Bongrock, New Jersey in February 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 24.

Reported location

Bongrock, New Jersey

Date of incident

February 1956

State / country

NJ / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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i 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

1 O Was Balloon

i 29 February 1956 a New Jersey O Probably Balloon

4 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Eanes Ely Doo

: : Loealataatis candnr tsi san oo HXGround- Visual O Ground-Radar Ho Riobdily Averets

2 ent OL/@180Z oo 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

§ 5. PHOTOS 0 SESOURGE Bd a Re eeu Loe Astronomical %

i 0 Yes XXProba ly Astronomica Sy”

1 XDNo Civilian (father and son) ol Lostinly etiensmicdl ~/

8 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION a NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BUOtReRa eS fa

h D Insufficient Data for Evaluation

pL: 0 Unknown i ;
. 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

bE One round object similar to a basket- The duration of the sighting, the |
1 ball, yellow in color, and appeared a description of the object, and

1 would a bright light, The object moved the ¥act that both Sirius and :
i up and down and back and forth in the Venus are located in the SW : !
A SW quadrant of the sky, quadrant of the sky and both i
E are very bright, lead this hg Ss
FE : | to the conclusion indicated l-
a above, The fact that no radar | -: |
3 contact was made with the object k |
1 although £3425 92° SPIE Mtg.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964978

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