Charlottetown, P.E.I. Canada, December 1962December 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Charlottetown, P.E.I. Canada, December 1962 in December 1962. The full case file (5 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 47.

Reported location

Charlottetown, P.E.I. Canada, December 1962

Date of incident

December 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

geht PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ;
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
| : O Wos Balloon |
Dr 13 December 1962 Charlottetown, P.E.I, CanadgO Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION WER eRisty Belen |
I pr TR BGround- Visual O Ground-Radar a a er pS
guy last 5 years i 0 AirVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft {
5. PHOTOS ; 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yes O Probably Astronomical [
No | Civilian OD Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION : NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BX Other Unrelinhle Rpt
O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation |
0 Unknown {
varied one varied
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Letter giving information that UFO's Probably astronomical objects.
have been observed many times for the | Data not conclusive. Case listed
last five years, Usually occur in as an unreliable report,
the evening and appear to the North
or NW. Speeds move in thousands of :
10's of thousands of mph & hover,
Reverse course, go below the horizon :
and reappear in another part of the
sky. Always seem to follow same :
pattern in the North and NW part of
sky,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999984

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1962 1962-12-01