Lagarfljot River, Iceland, August 1954August 1954

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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 Lagarfljot River, Iceland, August 1954 in August 1954. 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 21.

Reported location

Lagarfljot River, Iceland, August 1954

Date of incident

August 1954

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
2, August 1954 Lagariliot River, Iceland £2 Sh Sls
: Si Ball:LlJOb LLVer, JLice.and O Probably Balloon
¢ 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION HRC Ly
Local 220 | @Grund-Visal 0 Ground-Radar TO Probably Auverofr
§ } (D7 .
GMT 24,/21307 0 Air Visual 0 Air-intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
; 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
i No Civilaan 0] noseibly Artencmien),
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE O Other iii oiTIFED ~~
O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
] i NW-3 = renews
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
23 ft long. 4 to 5 inches in diameter, Cylindrical Recovery attempts by ADC failed due
in shape, Dark grey in color, Loud whizzing to period of two weeks from rpt rectd
i sound, Level f1t at rapid rate of spesd, then | and recovery attempted, River had risen ;
fell in sandbar. over sandber several times and chanecad
its shape. !
ATIC FORM 329 (REY 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28959390

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Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Lagarfljot River

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1954 1954-08-01