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Case FileNARA NAID 28975728 · T1206 Roll 31

Project Blue Book Case File

Lake City, FloridaDecember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

The OCR text is too fragmented and garbled to support a reliable summary. While the case metadata indicates two separate sightings in Lake City, Florida on December 5, 1957, the scanned pages contain significant OCR corruption that makes it impossible to extract coherent witness testimony, investigative findings, or Air Force conclusions with confidence. The file appears to reference a round, silver object resembling a light bulb, possible balloon explanations, and references to the planet Venus, but the specific details, sequence of events, and final determinations are not legible enough to report accurately. The full case file, consisting of 8 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.

Reported location

Lake City, Florida

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

FL / US

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 8
Transcribed text
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pais sl PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ¥ N
1. DATE y 2, LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Was Balloon
5 December 1957 Lake City, Florida O Probably Balleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP A TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balleon
1240 EST : © | Was Aircroft
Local Se ar — FeAGrapod Vi sup, hi DO Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
GMT 05/17490% 0 AirVisel O Air-Intercept Radar | © Possibly Aircraft
3. PHOTOS o 0 Was Astronomical
: O Yes O Probably Astronomical
Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE}: Ophepraistivsaioinn dling Solin rk XE
0% Insufficient Data for Evaluation
O Unknown
15 minutes one HE t
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1). COMMENTS 2
Round, silver object with appearance o Due to insufficient information,
large light bulb, bright in color, cannot properly evaluate,
moving slowly to NE directly overhead,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :
: o
L : 2 : |
13
rr TR EIT AS RIC ER Te, JEN ERA BU Ne! A 5 A
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975728

Connected across the archive

Places

FloridaLake City, FL

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19571957-12-01

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