Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y., December 1957December 1957

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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 Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y., December 1957 in December 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 31.

Reported location

Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y., December 1957

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

o is ; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD HAAR,
%. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Wos Balloon
1 5 Great Neck, Long Island,N,Y, |O Frobobly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloen |
Local 1600 EST RX Bround-Visuol 0 Ground-Radar a Penal in |
omT___12/2100Z : 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE OD Was A I
YX Yes Ror Kec'D a] Bakaly Arengireal
XX No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTM OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (a 0a) | 7 AER ROE SEU SCN ARSE SR
Rx thauiligien Dota for Evaluation
5 minutes one straight up ddd / |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS AT
Square, yellow object, size of bas- Source gives no azimuth, bearings
ketball with tentacles coming out of or direction of object. Without 4
object. Was giving off smoke and a this data cannot condude., It was
humming sound, Was stationary, then snowing/any object can take on
shot across sky, came back and weat weird appearance through snow,
straight up, :
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 20 3£P 832)
; | | :
EAR NRT Gn BE HA A el NR GR Ee Pirie L § }

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28976059

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-12-01