Keflavic Airport, Iceland, May 1955May 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 Keflavic Airport, Iceland, May 1955 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

Keflavic Airport, Iceland, May 1955

Date of incident

May 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

RE
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HE ny PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Wos Balloon |
| 4d May 1956 | [Keflavic Airport, Iceland|g Biheply Bojlocn |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION |
0 Was Ai fe
: Leet ai HARRY AX Ground- Visual 00 Ground-Radar a Probably Aircraft
: emt 04/1338% fer RAT 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
i OT EE TG ET 1) CES 80 Was Astronomical
a O Yes Ti 0 Probably Astronomical
: EON Military D Possibly Astrorromical
: eo Eb Ae a is i gis AEH PAE La Bn ga
"7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0, Othe! UNIDENTIFIED
; 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 BX Unknown
: 0-8 seconds ten unknown : |
p 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
3 Round, oxidized silver in color, UNIDENTIFIED
] All located in one general arsa, but
3 not in formation. Flew in arc across
3 sky, half way across, one object left
: small smoke trail, then disappeared,
Very erratic motions, Great speed.
Did not compare with jet aircraft.
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
i His dl Ee i EB ib a dee Be dd 4

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961904

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Keflavic Airport

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-05-01