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Case FileNARA NAID 28993992 · T1206 Roll 43

Project Blue Book Case File

Cape Canaveral, FloridaAugust 1961

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 Cape Canaveral, Florida in August 1961. 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 43.

Reported location

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Date of incident

August 1961

State / country

FL / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 43

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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8 Aug ol cape Canaveral, Blorida 0 Probably Balloon :
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION OD Possibly Balloon
5100 oe Vi 5 00 Was Aircraft
Leu Bl iis iiticimne {XGround- Visual 0 Ground-Rodar Q Probably Aircraft
NON. ayy 2
: GMT 000200% 0 Air Visual J Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aireraht A i
5. ‘PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 1 Was Astronomicol MeTen
: 0 Yes DX Probably Astronomical
4 «:0 Ne Military O Possibly Astronomical
i 7. LENGTH CF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BOTH iii iimiiisiinioi
: O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
j Sy 3 Unknown
; 3-5 sec 21 NA
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Round. white, objt 11. COMMENTSSpeed, color, etc., conform ©O
: described as light. Appesra2d at 30° elev, observaticn of meteor. Absence of tail gan
30° T az. Disappeared at 30° elev, 90° az aftepbe explainzd in that occasionally tail
i straight level flight. Estimated at 1,500", is very faint and is not always ohsexrved.
= . P-3 miles distant. Appearance of altitude and distance do ijotb
g rule out probability of objt being a
meteor.
1 i ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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