Hialiah, FloridaApril 1961

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 Hialiah, Florida in April 1961. 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 42.

Reported location

Hialiah, Florida

Date of incident

April 1961

State / country

FL / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
|o Wos Balloon
28 April 1961 . Hial#ah, Florida |O Probably Balloon
i BE ee te iitam———————————— eC EE EEE —ee—=| [J Possibly Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
i : X Wos Aircraf
| Local a SERRE cs AX Xound- Visual 0 Ground-Radar a Probably Aircraft
1G ER Rn Rl CC Q AirVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar | O Possibly Aircraft
{ I's. PHOTOS Re TS TRS ST SSE é. SOURCE : rT A ER RTRSY | (w) Was Astronomical
! O Yes |O Probably Astvmes
{ : 94 0 Possibly Astronomico
| © mwe ~~ |Civilism
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Fol 0, Ee
| | 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
{0 Unknown
not reported 4A one | not reported
ho. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Silver like object in sky. Object Since witness considered the obj
| came out of nowhere and disappeared, as possibly an a/c and ao infor-
Witness thought obj might have been | mation in the report conflicts
| a/c. with this analysis, case is
carried as an a/c sighting.
|
! |
| : |
ATIC FORM 129 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28992203

Connected across the archive

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Places

Florida Hialiah, FL

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-04-01