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Case FileNARA NAID 28959520 · T1206 Roll 21

Project Blue Book Case File

Kinston, North CarolinaSeptember 1954

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 Kinston, North Carolina in September 1954. 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 21.

Reported location

Kinston, North Carolina

Date of incident

September 1954

State / country

NC / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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3 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

4 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS .

4 9 Septemb 19 . 2 R 0 Was Balloon

. 7 September 1954 Kinston, North Carolina eh O Probably Balloon

1 3. DATE-TIME GROUP [4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION oot Resting Balloon

| ) j RYT O Was Aircraft

5 Loca! CEE = : & Ground- Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar G Probably Aircraft

1 [oF 13 piemind Mins 402 : O Air Visual 0 Air-intarcept Radar = Possibly Alicia

EL S. PHOTOS +] 8 SOURC ATR i) . "" |# Was Astronomical Meteor

| ; O Yes O Probably Astronomical

Id ££ No : C5575 A X : i O Possibly Astronomical
18 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF O3JECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other : ;

| : O Insufficient Data for Evaluation

i ; : 0 Unknown

i (EE! 3 to sacondas EL y Not Renorted : Peay) {
| ho. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING a 11. COMMENTS EEE

. Blue-green football shape light, incandescenf. Meteor.

: © { Straight and l=vel flight. Through fisld of

: carision at 25 deg elev, WX-Haze up to LCOO i
| relic PL Halo on moony |
d " ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28959520

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