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Case FileNARA NAID 29000021 · T1206 Roll 47

Project Blue Book Case File

Huntington, West VirginiaDecember 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Huntington, West Virginia in December 1962. The full case file (5 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 47.

Reported location

Huntington, West Virginia

Date of incident

December 1962

State / country

WV / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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Ec 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
§ 0 Wos Balloon 4 |
: 18 December 1962 Huntington West Virginia 0 Probably Balloon !
~ 3. oATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION So
i ow i f |
4 peal os Ce ee KR 2Ground- Visual D Ground-Radar a Probebly Atreroft |
E GM 18/0930-09402Z i 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
i 5. SAE 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
i Q Yes O Probably Astronomical
. BXNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BEXomer BCH 3.
E O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation |
E 3 O Unknown
le than 10
© |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
4 Obj with less magnitude than Venus Satellite ECHO I was over the city
E or Jupiter ohserved to appear at 427 AM EST to the North of the
y stationary for about 5 minutes at city at 51 dgr elevation moving
which time it moved to the SE & out SE in position to be observed by
3 of sight in 5 mins more. the witness. Case evaluated as
ECHO I,
E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
E ; /
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/
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29000021

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