Iceland, August 1955August 1955

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 Iceland, August 1955 in August 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

Iceland, August 1955

Date of incident

August 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

"
$i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
y 9 0 Wos Balloon
| I A) Iceland O Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP i. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ITE ddd lortab
LOI sii si 0, Ground- Vi sual O Ground-Rador = ears Afverdh
Mm GMT LL 12USZ 0 Air Visuvol O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
Ne O Possibly Astronomical
SY 1, RS. 1.17 KA ——— UNIDENTIFIED
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE lo Othet
Li : O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
Sw mins 2 £¢ Unknown
| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS : 0
| Shaped: changed from cigar tO egg shaped. Appenrdd Sounds like birds, hwever, case
| to be gray in color. Formation changed from evaluated as UNIDENTIFIED in 1953.
| »liptical to a wavy line to scattered and back
to straight line. Objs were first in trail form
| speeds from almost hovering to over 1,000 mph.
| Radar out of operation at time of sighting. |
| "ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) | :
| ky | : Cie
| | ; : 0 Ye : 5 k he ky

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963134

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-08-01