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Case FileNARA NAID 28996649 · T1206 Roll 45

Project Blue Book Case File

Lake View, South CarolinaApril 1962

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 Lake View, South Carolina in April 1962. 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 45.

Reported location

Lake View, South Carolina

Date of incident

April 1962

State / country

SC / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : :
: n DATE 2. LCCATION | 12 CONCLUSIONS
: 19 Wos Balloon
) + 1962 ake View, SOU vy Carolina = Probably Balicon
i 3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4 TYPE OF O3SERVATION ; p Brod Abbie
: QO Was Aircraft
ps r . OG -Ra
| | Lodal tsionionduail pi ai Tl 8 Ground-Visual O Ground-Radar |G Probably Aircraft
: GMT YUs/ 11004 Fee 0 Ain Visual O Air-lntercept Radar | 0 Possibly Aircraft
ee | 6. SOURCE 0 Vas Astronomical
; O Yes O Probably Astronomical
: : 0 Possibly Astronomical
0 No ef 0 oA WB A ERAS
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE I a
Xr lasufficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
(10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING © |1). COMMENTS Ratnam Gas Le
Sighting just prio to dawn of obj) 1 SARDLINg in: Apr. Rptd thru CIA.
E East described as a rocket without Dela: Ln receipt. NO rptd launch
i exhaust, Small. Two objs came fin obj im Canaveral. Possible NASA ol
that looked like dots. Mah obj flew vity.Ifm Wallops Island. No ch
: out of sight to SW. Two objs turned made at this date. Case carried
around & went North. At various time: as insurficient data.
; they would emit exhaust & gain speed
Lost sight in abou 0 mins,
: 5 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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