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Case FileNARA NAID 28968937 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

Floyd Bennett Navy AB, New YorkFebruary 1957

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 Floyd Bennett Navy AB, New York in February 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 27.

Reported location

Floyd Bennett Navy AB, New York

Date of incident

February 1957

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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: 12 February 1957 Floyd Bennett Navy AB, New ie Bectaily Betleen |
| 3 DATE-TIME GROUP : 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION : York SasHinY Lal aan
i Baie ca ORO X¥#Ground-Visual BX DO Ground-Radar & Prabatly Aircraft |

. GM 5 At 2 7. 0 AirVisual 0 Air-Intercep? Rodor DO Possibly Aireraft i

~ TS PRGTOS SOURCE O Was Astronomical i

bor ay XXY¥ea not rec'd O Probably Astronomical ;

: a © B.Ne High School student : 0 Possibly Astronomical |
i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION E NUMBER OF OBJECTS |" COURSE Ho 1 © eS |
4 ) . O Insufficient Data for Evaluation i
hi : 75 O Unknown :
' LL. 1 hr, 20 mins, one | N to SW. i
| jie. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING * ~~ 11. COMMENTS ; £5
Bids tn - . . . 14 . - AE - * =. - . [
. .JOne object, oval shaped, size of quartdr Wind direction and velocities
; through binoculars, color white, Obj at 10-16,000 ft coihcide with
| .»} faded out, : travel of object, i.e., N to
His Ged 3 is SW, As object was positively |
5 identified as round in shape, i
EE (Tea observed through binoculars,
sien j in sight for over 1 hour,

fv undoubtedly was a balloon.
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|. “TIC FORM 329 (REV 26 IEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28968937

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