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Case FileNARA NAID 28970438 · T1206 Roll 28

Project Blue Book Case File

Brooklyn, New YorkJuly 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 Brooklyn, New York in July 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

Brooklyn, New York

Date of incident

July 1957

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
) 0 Was Bolloon
01 Julv 1957 Brookivn New York 0 Probably Balloon
; 3 y LS at JE i PS Py
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION gh FOENE) PRISE |
4 a : O Wos Aircraft
3 BL EERE RRS SA 2:Ground-Visuol 0 Ground-Redor 8 Probobly Airerofs
J oMT__U2,/ 04307 3 Air-Visuol QO Air-Intercept Radar IK Possibly Airerofy
3 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
1 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
FE “8 Neo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
~ |7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 18. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE eR I ee
; O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
- : Seat Tp 0 Unknown
I minute 15 ssconds one NE to SW
© |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
E Object yellow-orange. Object appeared| A/C in turn often appears station
| to be two lights when viewed w/low ary for short periods. Other eile
| powered binoculars, connected by a ments characteristic of a/c sight
3 fuselage w/tiny dots of iight in row ing. Case evaluated as a/c. |
§ | resembling ports. Object novered then -
moved siowly from NE to Sh.
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ATIC FORM 319 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28970438

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