Dade City, FloridaNovember 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 Dade City, Florida in November 1955. 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 24.

Reported location

Dade City, Florida

Date of incident

November 1955

State / country

FL / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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| thy i : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Las
3 : EGE ist SE EE bo ee Se Ta el bd nS Cn RU EP Ee BB ES eel CR RE SOL Ed Ul NC alr (en) | x
© | 1. DATE 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS !
E O Was Balloon {
E 6 u] Probably Balloon
* | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0: Possibly Balleon |
; g 0 Was Aircroft {
. omen 0 Ground-Visual DO Ground-Radar [m] Probably Aircraft
3 GM 7 Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircroft
' '|sTPRoTos . SOURCE HB Was Astronomical Meteor
Ha QO Yes O Probably Astronomical
: 2 No J k ; civilian O Possibly Astronomical
© | 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BlrOMheres sel se
4 0 insuiciant Dato for Evaluation
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» |10 ~ 15 sec unk E tow bn
i 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
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4 Delta wing a/c size of piper cub. No 70° of arc in 10 seconds. Description
4 exhaust first observed as big flash of indicates meteor sighting.
¢ | light. Straight flt path, E -~ W. :
E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) ue
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964165

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Dade City Dade City, FL Florida

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-11-01