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Case FileNARA NAID 28969236 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

Jacksonville, FloridaMarch 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 Jacksonville, Florida in March 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

Jacksonville, Florida

Date of incident

March 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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i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
4 L. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
i 0D Wos Balloon
i 10 March 19537 acksonville, Florida g Liobgbly Botlgen
i ‘3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION i A a
| Locol 1600 | *XGround-Visual O Ground-Radar a Probably Airer is |
4 MT 10/2 1007 O AirVisval Q Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft |
i 5. PHOTOS 5. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
4 : Q Yes O Probably Astronomical
4 | & No Civilian OD Possibly Astronomical
i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Co RA 0) 1 Sa EL Hh ATE
i : O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Er O Unknown .
5 10 second is SL one. South
i 0. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGNTING [lr COMMENTS
a One object round like a saucer only in [Possible error in duration. Child.
| a vertical position, size of silver en observed onject and called
duilar, color white. Object was high arents who also withessed phena-
I. & traveling at high speed. An a/c was [mena. Also object sighted overhead
f in the area. : and disappeared vertically, yet
BE . flight path was given as heading {
a : | south from Jax to Miami, Indica-
4 tions are that this is probably i
: an a/c sighting.
i ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969236

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