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Case FileNARA NAID 28961930 · T1206 Roll 23

Project Blue Book Case File

Long Beach, MississippiMay 1955

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 Long Beach, Mississippi in May 1955. 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 23.

Reported location

Long Beach, Mississippi

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

MS / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
| [RR Ae Ge XKGround- Vi sual QO Ground-Radar a Probably Alrcrof
: CMT 09/04007 0 Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar a rassitly hyrerany
; 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical :
; O Yes O Probably Astronomical
1 a No Militar O Possibly Astronomical
dm sci is boll RE A SQUIER Thi isis chia :
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BR STII li ie itis ici
3 XX XiInsutficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
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| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
4 slowly changing arc. Formation of There were no reported a/c in
| or 10 dimly glowing lights, Moved area at time, It is possible
at high rate of speed. Straight and that phenomenon was caused by
] level course, a sky reflection of lights,
i Also, slight possiblity of meteor
activity with positional change
considered an illusion, No repe
3 | tition as is usual w/searchligh
{ ; activity, Insufficient data for
g evaluation,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP §2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961930

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