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Case FileNARA NAID 28974622 · T1206 Roll 30

Project Blue Book Case File

Columbia, South CarolinaNovember 1957

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 Columbia, South Carolina in November 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 30.

Reported location

Columbia, South Carolina

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

SC / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
LJ -
boo 4 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |.
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: ¥ 0 Was Balloon
1&8 November 1937 Columbia, South Carolina |B Sighph 4 os
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION WE wy Seen
w nr I (3 Was Aircraft
I i a X¥ Ground- Visual O Ground-Rader 0 Probably Aircraft
GMT 187 11007 es J Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Rador 0 Possibly Aircraft .
5.. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE XX xXWas Astronomical Met oov
GO Yes {1 Probebly Astronomical
X50 No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
"7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE  |O0 Other _
0D Insufficient Data for Evaluation
§ v 0 Unknown
1 second one not given :
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS |
Round white light, about the size of ‘Meteor,
a dime at arm's length. Trail about
3 times the diameter of main object.
Had an orange tinge. Did not fade,
| but disappeared suddenly,
i
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 258 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28974622

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Places

Columbia, SCSouth Carolina

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19571957-11-01

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