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Case FileNARA NAID 28985113 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

Great Mills, MarylandOctober 1959

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 Great Mills, Maryland in October 1959. 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 37.

Reported location

Great Mills, Maryland

Date of incident

October 1959

State / country

MD / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE | 2 LOCATION [12. CONCLUSIONS 2
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. |O Wes Balloon
19 Oct 59 | Great Mills, Meryiend 5 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
: Fonhe st LR SRR SE LEER O Ground- Visual OU Ground-Raoder \o Was Aircraft :
O Proboebly Aircraft
GMT 189/075252 & Air Visual QC Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircrait i
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE : 0 Wes Astronomiccl
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
x&t No Civilien Airlines Fli gh s O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE DO Other fis
Insufficient Data for Eveivctior
4 O Unknown
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4 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
fpts fm two Airlines flights. Obj wes rnd, Airlines pilots not evaileble for
reddish-white 5-6 times as lerge as & star.) interrogetion according to the imitic
3 Green wings protruded fm the obj. rpt. No follow-up wes attempted.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28985113

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