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Case FileNARA NAID 28964815 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Georgetown, MassachusettsFebruary 1956

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Summary

I cannot write a responsible summary of this case.

The OCR quality of pages 3-8 is too poor to read reliably. The text is so heavily garbled that I cannot safely extract specific facts about what was observed, when, by whom, or what the Air Force concluded. Attempting to summarize from this material would mean inventing details or making unsupported inferences from noise.

What I can extract with confidence from the readable portions (pages 1-2):

On February 1956 in Georgetown, Massachusetts, a civilian reported seeing a group of "saucers" on a clear, sunny day. About half an hour later, the witness reported seeing two more objects, only closer. The witness wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about the possibility the objects were Russian. The witness was noted as an avid reader of UFO authors Donald Keyhoe and Frank Scully, with "obvious psychological motives in reporting objects." The Air Force evaluator marked the report "unreliable" and noted no other corroborating information beyond the witness's history of observing flying saucers.

The rest of the file is too degraded to summarize responsibly. The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, 8 pages.

Reported location

Georgetown, Massachusetts

Date of incident

February 1956

State / country

MA / US

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 8
Transcribed text
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: : g PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD K
= 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 O Wos Balloon
a 8 February 1956 Georgetown, Massachusetts |J Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION hr SE
3 iy REE ke hr i SOR, XGk Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 2 Probably Airerafs
fe GMT 0 AirVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Airerafy
| 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical :
L Q Yes O Probobly Astronomical |
E n Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |B. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9 COURSE |B omer unreliable Rpt
3 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation: |
= O Unknown :
f ultiple not reported : 3 f
1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING T1. COMMENTS
a Group of saucers observed in north Avid reader of Keyhoe and Frank i
on clear sunlit day. Half hour later Scully. Obvious psychological :
4 saw two more, only closer, Letter to motives in reporting objects. No
9 J. Edgar Hoover about hhe possibility | information other than that the
E. of the saucers being Russian, witness has observed flying |
E saucers, Unreliable,
[ ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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