KEFLAVIK, ICELAND, October 1952October 1952

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from KEFLAVIK, ICELAND, October 1952 in October 1952. 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 15.

Reported location

KEFLAVIK, ICELAND, October 1952

Date of incident

October 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 15

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION I'S. NUM3ER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE TE Ee
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: ¢ ! p | | SSW {3 Unknown
0. BRIC F SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ToT poNER wr ERR a :
| Disc shaped, pinkish-orange object i de Theo bjects description sounds like |
~ observed over Keflavik Airport by four : a common weather balloon. |
Ey officers of 932 ACI Sq. Object traveled 2. Little is known about balloon sites
: ab high speed, 5=10,000 feet, hovered : and timos of releases in Iceland :
| mnosentarily over airport. by ATIAA-S.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28950331

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

KEFLAVIK

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1952 1952-10-01