Project Blue Book Case File
[Illegible], March 1949 - Incident Number: 277March 1949
Summary
I apologize, but the OCR quality of this document is too degraded to support a reliable summary. While pages 2 and 7-14 contain case details, the text is heavily obscured by scanning artifacts, illegibility, and OCR errors that make it impossible to extract with confidence the core facts: the location name remains illegible throughout, witness identities are redacted or unclear, and critical narrative details are garbled.
What I can determine: The case involves multiple sightings of unidentified objects near Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas, on the night of March 7, 1949 (though some date references suggest March 5, 1949). Multiple witnesses on the ground at different observation points reported objects described variously as flares, flash bulbs, or ball-like objects, mostly bluish-white in color, appearing at low altitude and disappearing quickly behind trees or into cloud cover. Weather conditions were reported as clear.
However, without readable witness statements, the full details of what each observer saw, the sequence of events, or any investigative conclusions, a proper summary cannot be constructed.
The full case file, as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below in 14 pages of microfilm T1206, Roll 4.
Reported location
[Illegible], March 1949 - Incident Number: 277
Date of incident
March 1949
State / country
? / XX
Page count
14 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 4