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Case FileNARA NAID 28969606 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

Hileah, FloridaApril 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 Hileah, Florida 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

Hileah, Florida

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

FL / 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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nt PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; 0 Wos Balloon ;
98 ld Avril 1957 Tileah Florida DO Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION me asiklyiRgl loon
FL TR 1 KV SN B82Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar 8 Ll WES
gt GMT 15/01497 O Air Visual DO Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS g 6. SOURCE 0% Was Astronomical Meteor
id 6 O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
5 "No Civ 0 Possibly Astronomical
ee eee eee ee ee ee ee elie ees eee ees. 12
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE oR 0) 111) ot ne ET
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
PATE ODO Unknown
i 5 seconds one falling
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
i One object, round with tail, size of Meteor of larger than normal size,

i quarter, color white with orange tail,
Tail three times longex than body. : 4
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 256 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969606

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