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Case FileNARA NAID 28973046 · T1206 Roll 29

Project Blue Book Case File

Great Neck, New YorkNovember 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 Great Neck, New York in November 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 29.

Reported location

Great Neck, New York

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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3 1 i O Was Balloon |
‘BN 5 November 1957 Great Neck, New York ’- ey bene
Ed | 3. DATETIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION r
Es p A O Wes Aircraft
§ ERR © SNR GS RR SR A:Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodor DX Probably Airerafy |
§ GM 05/22007 0 AirVisuol 0 Air-Intercept Rador O Possibly Aircraft
i 3. PHOYSS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
ki O Yes oO Hodgins 1 nm
§ ; PIERS O Possibly Astronomica
: Oo Civilian x
§ 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE QO Other ___
: O Insufficient Date for Evaluotinn
0 Unknown i
110, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Six round objects in two groups of At time of this sighting the sky |
.hree each - 1 large, two mmall in was completely overcast, Identity |
cach group, Yellowish white. One had or actual appearance of anything
slight tail like a comet and was in the sky under these condition:
reddish in color. One group stopped is often very questionable. How=verd,
the other turned right, then left, on the basis of previous similar
chen disappeared, rpts this sighting was probably
a/c in formation, witness 15 yr ’
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28973046

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