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Case FileNARA NAID 28999203 · T1206 Roll 46

Project Blue Book Case File

Hawthorne, New JerseySeptember 1962

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 Hawthorne, New Jersey in September 1962. 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 46.

Reported location

Hawthorne, New Jersey

Date of incident

September 1962

State / country

NJ / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

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
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ’
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; GMT. ERE LOWS. | LI Ale Visual C Air-Intercept Radar LU Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
£3 ay Bgl pony GF 0 Possibly Astronomical
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7. LENGTH CF C23ZRVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BI
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
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