Garden City, MichiganMarch 1963

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 Garden City, Michigan in March 1963. The full case file (6 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 47.

Reported location

Garden City, Michigan

Date of incident

March 1963

State / country

MI / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
3 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
E : ; 0 Was Bolloon
a March 1963 Garden City Mi chigan a] Probably Balloon
3 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Gl GORMLEY Re Ooh
4 | EE RT dR Re J a XX Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar a sel
E GMT not reported | © 0 AieVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
3 5. PHOTOS | 6 SOURCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yes | O Probably Astronomical
i : B%io Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
i
3 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION B NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE oo 11] | ret RAE Le Be
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 % | 0 Unknown )
1 5 minutes one | maneuvered
| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING i COMMENTS
| i Silver object, red at tips with | Object acted as a normal a/c
1 | bluefreenish exhaust flying hori- would be expected to operate,
| zontally for about 5 minutes, Stopped Hovering and manner of disappear
BE for about 10 seconds then disappeared ance attributed to an illusion.
{ straight up, | Long delay in reporting sighting
; | Rpt fm school youth, A/C analysis
3 bi | consistent with limited data pre
| | sented.
] |
a |
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29000341

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Places

Garden City, MI Michigan

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1963 1963-03-01