Gulfport, MississippiDecember 1954

Unidentified

Summary

On December 7, 1954, an Air Force navigator in Gulfport, Mississippi witnessed a round, flat grey object in the sky. The object appeared translucent and rotated rapidly on its vertical axis. At first it moved up and down, then suddenly sped away at an estimated speed of 500 to 650 miles per hour.

An Air Force officer discussed the sighting with a local meteorologist. Based on that conversation, the meteorologist suggested the object could possibly have been a small wind vortex carrying dust and debris. However, the Air Force ultimately marked the case as unidentified, meaning the investigators could not confirm that explanation or settle on any other definitive cause.

Pages 3 through 7 of this file are too heavily degraded by the OCR process to yield reliable detail. The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 7 pages.

Reported location

Gulfport, Mississippi

Date of incident

December 1954

State / country

MS / US

Page count

7 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 7

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1 a a gg 0 | Re | R711
7 Docapber 195. Culfrort, Mississippi 0 Wos Balloon
5 30 ey AY5L vy * £4 (@} Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Te TO Bie |
Local en D-Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rader 2 fl Lf
CMT 03/181 27 i 0 Air- Visual 0 Air intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomical
O Yes 0 Probobly Astronomical :
4 No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomicol
"7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE — |B Other UNIDENTIFIED
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
- . . Tn 0 Unknown
30 Seconds 5 | 5B
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Round ,ond flat object. Grey. Hoverasd, then
| sped away at 500 - 600 mph,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28960599