High Falls, New YorkApril 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 High Falls, New York in April 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 27.

Reported location

High Falls, New York

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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t Sd | PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD fii |
: 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
: : § 0 Was Balloon |
1 10 April 1957 High Falls, New York 0 Probably Balloon
; —k rt Toph Td-.-8, NEW York W000
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
8 3 5 Yas, i 0 Was Aircraft
tocol 02:2 {TGround-Visuol O Ground-Rador QO Probably Aircraft
CMT 1C0/0745Z O Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
Fo 5. PHOTOS é. SOURCE O Was Astronomical le teor
4 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
XO Ne Civilian XX Possibly Astronomical
-l TE et eee eros meter os Fema. re Se .
¢ 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [i Ji 1, | PS a RS
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
a SIL 0 Unknown
{ seconds one
men, (tT i ER EAS SR RAR coat EMI UA a (RI SAR Ba BEL
10. BRIE? SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
i One object white - leading edge not as Astro (Meteor)
gE white as body. Object 3 times as bright ;
4 .a8 Jupiter, On a heading of 280 dgr to 4
240 dgr, parabolic - light went out,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969509

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Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

High Falls High Falls, NY New York

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-04-01