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Case FileNARA NAID 28963963 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Essex Junction, VTOctober 1955

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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 Essex Junction, VT in October 1955. 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 24.

Reported location

Essex Junction, VT

Date of incident

October 1955

State / country

VT / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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EF / PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
4 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
E 0 Wos 8
| 19 Oct 55 Essex Junction, Vt o Peobebly Balloon
F 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Z TYPE OF OBSERVATION SEAS
| Vadilis mee nd i & Ground- Visual D Ground-Radar is 43 CWI
1 CMT 19/23382 DO Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
E 5. PHOTOS = . SOURCE g LH eg reckon
3 (1) r mi
E ie civilian enamilita a Bo ualhly Ait aneamical
E 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE GF OMT i ae
E | 9 Nault cient Data for Evaluation
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Eb 32 mins 1 Fading in sou Tae nl
E 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
e ob) shaped like a half moon and then een by member of 46028 AISS. From the 1:
3 anggng to @& disk shape. Size of a head of escription of the obj and comments :
i pea held at arms length. Dull orange at be 4602 AISS observer sighting waa oo
1rst then changing to blue-whik. ; enerated by & jet a/c. ca badd
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; © ATIC FORM 329 (REV 126 8EP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963963

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