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Case FileNARA NAID 28961584 · T1206 Roll 22

Project Blue Book Case File

Burbank, CaliforniaMarch 1955

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 Burbank, California in March 1955. The full case file (6 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 22.

Reported location

Burbank, California

Date of incident

March 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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l. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Vos Bolloon
18 March 1955 | Burbank, California 0 Probably Balloon
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 3 Posuiny Ration
BEY PRE iE AR Ca NKGround-Visual J Ground-Raudar " i ecb BRE |
ane... 19/703 1 1A 0 Air-Visual [1 Air-lntercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft |
OGL Re Ce ee RIOR [TRE 1) Te a ERE I TP vr vv pepe :
0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomico] |
Bio Civilian (I Possibly Astronomicol (ny, )
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE HI
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
t 0 Unknown
I LEE ERE Oene. | one oo Southeast :
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One orange and red object, very A possibility of the sighting
large, was seen by observer to head being astronomical in nature
across the sky toward the southeast seems to be valid in the nature
and disappear, Time of sighting of the description and the time
three seconds, Observer used binocu- | of the object in sight, Possibly
lars, a meteor,
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| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961584

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