Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, January 1953January 1953

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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 Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, January 1953 in January 1953. The full case file (6 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 17.

Reported location

Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, January 1953

Date of incident

January 1953

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 17

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

J |
] $1. DATE - TIME GROUP 2. LO™ATION |
{
4 22 Jan 53 23/004 0% Harmon AFB, “Newfoundland
: 3. SOURCE 10, CONCLUSION ; |
ACY Personncl Astro (PLANET ViNUs)
4. MUMBER OF OBJECTS 3 8 fadar contact tried - negmative,
3 Ze Good report - contains an evaluation by the precarin:
One officer as to sizhtincs canse = ATIC concurs. 1
B LENGTH OF OBS5ZRVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
10 iin Unusucl 1izht chonging from white to red wos stationary not
far froxa the horizon, .
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION :
Cround Visual
1 17. course
1.71.7

9 iva »
4 3. PHOTOS
HE OU Yos
| XM
; 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
3 0 Yes :

XX No

FORM
FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Provious editions of this form may be used,

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28952700

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Harmon AFB

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1953 1953-01-01