Brooklyn, New YorkAugust 1958

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Summary

On about August 29, 1958, a civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an unidentified flying object he had seen roughly ten days earlier at about 8 p.m. He wrote to the War Department about it. He was sitting on a roof when he saw an object to the south by west. He described it as a triangle, shaped like an isosceles triangle, about 3 or 4 miles up and not moving fast. The sides were brightly lit, like ordinary electric light. It had no wings and flew too slowly for a jet. He watched it for 5 or 6 minutes.

The witness said his eyesight was good and that no one else seemed to have seen it. The Air Force conclusion on the Project 10073 record card was probably aircraft, noting that a delta-wing aircraft in a climb gives the appearance described. The card noted the witness reported it ten days late because it had no wings and flew slower than jets. Project 10073 was the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Brooklyn, New York

Date of incident

August 1958

State / country

NY / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

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i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
p 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
E : O Was Balloon
Es 29 August 1958 Brook New J Sl Botte
a 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION etl tiioo Mana
PJ — HE round- Visual O Ground-Radar ox Sry fever oft
; : GMT 50/0100Z a Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
i 5. ‘PHOTOS . SOU O Was Astronomical
1 Q Yes O Probably Astronomical
Gi No Civili OD Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CAE ———
§ : O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
E 8p 0 Unknown
] o= minutes one SW
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING - |11. COMMENTS
1 Rpt of obj viewed about ten days Delta wing configuration a/c in |
] prior to rpt, Described as a plane or| climb gives the ajpeararcc os
BE something without wings, delta shaped} described, witmess 1ndici .oc
: ool sd Pdr 3 hond light in that the obj was a planc ov
; rightness, Slow flight, No wings, something & the fact that it
{ bad no wings & appeared to fly
: slower than jets caused him £9
: make a rpt ten days after the
| sighting, |
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