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Case FileNARA NAID 28961490 · T1206 Roll 22

Project Blue Book Case File

Edwards AFB, CaliforniaMarch 1955

Unidentified

Summary

The OCR text on pages 6 through 10 is too severely degraded to support reliable summary writing. The scanned images appear to contain significant portions of narrative detail, investigation notes, and conclusions, but the optical character recognition has rendered most of the text illegible or unintelligible.

On March 10, 1955, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, observers reported seeing objects in the sky that the Air Force initially could not identify. The case file spans 10 pages as preserved by the National Archives.

Reported location

Edwards AFB, California

Date of incident

March 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

10 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 10
Transcribed text
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
BR Sh GOOATION od a REE | 1 LE CR
A 3 00 Vos Balloon
10 March 1955 Edwards AFB, California 0 Probably Balleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION “18 ressitly 8sliesn
El) [one RE eS IN a ee RAE XX Ground- Visual 3 Ground- Radar hy hoe hal VINER
i omr_10/2400Z feat OD Air-Visudl [3 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS é. SOURCE 0D Was Astronomical
3 0 Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
at Ho 3 Ovilien (2 observers) J Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CRE Re RAS
00 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
j " ie 3 0 Unknown
: re LR Tay IRs IN. Lo DORN (OE 1:1 1T cf SN RS SE oh
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS
: Two delta wing type objects, which Douglas "Sky Ray" test. See
appeared to be a/c of some sort, grey Edwards AFB, case same date, |
in color, were observed to cross sky Statement by Wm H Dorsey,
at a speed estimated at 3,000 MPH.
One of two observers rptd that one
] of objects took a highly eepratic
3 course, while the other observer did not
{ reporty anything but that the object |
3 seemed to maintain a straight line
; of flight, Objects appeared to fly
1 with the flat edge of the delta No Report in File,
3 wing forward, :
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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