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Case FileNARA NAID 28961997 · T1206 Roll 23

Project Blue Book Case File

Hollister, CaliforniaMay 1955

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 Hollister, California in May 1955. 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 23.

Reported location

Hollister, California

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
| : ! PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ;
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
=] il 8
2 1 55 3 v + iv O Probably Balloon
13 May 1955 Hollister, California 8 Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
lee | EGwwdViwus 0 Creund-Rader PO Nos Meet
Is > uy .
omt14/0525%7 hil FrAir- Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
iE VEE To RE 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
XP No Civilian (Airline Pi lot) - O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CI cp A A LC RR CB
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
: 0 Unknown
APProx one hour one Northwest :
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
sTroup of lights which appeared to fuse Information received in the
into a single object was observed from preliminary report from the 28t}]
A» commerc¢ial aircraft at 10,000 feet, Air Division indicates that
Dbject seemed to be flying at over sighting was caused by a RC-121
200 MPH, Although observer immediately aircraft,
suspected a/c of some type, he could
ot recognize the external navigation
light pattern.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
0 SD 80 Nr A RE
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961997

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