Cedar Key, Fla., December 1957December 1957

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Cedar Key, Fla., December 1957 in December 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 31.

Reported location

Cedar Key, Fla., December 1957

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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fal ery PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD a “
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i - ; 0X Wos Balloon
5 December 1957 Cedar Key, Fla, DO Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION El \Pakpibly Balloon
0 Was Aircraft
| teed oo all dae O Ground-Rador O Probobly Aircraft
chr. 0B/17047 RRA 0 Air-Intercept Radar |© Possibly Aircraft
S. PHOTOS J 0 Was Astronomical
a O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
B:Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [ae a], 1 1 EA A HOS)
g ihauiticient Data for Evaluation .
B 1 min/still present one ENE kha
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ;
Round, white object, drifting very The characteristics in description
slowly NE, of object are those of a waather :
h halloon, ;
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
; |
: | A 3

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975723

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-12-01