Longmeadow, Mass., April 1952April 1952

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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 Longmeadow, Mass., April 1952 in April 1952. 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 9.

Reported location

Longmeadow, Mass., April 1952

Date of incident

April 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 9

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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j* BATE ( 2. LOCATION ( ls CONCLUSIONS
} gmeadow, Mass 0 Wos Balloon
_ AT Ape 92 Lon ’ . } Probobly Balloon
3. DATETIME GROUP ~~~ — [4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION ~10 Possibly Balloon |
Local ENTE F— X Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar - Probably Atvcraft
oT... L2X/OA 30 5 i 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rodor 0 Possibly Aircraft |
ce EERE eat 6. SOURCE Vai 0 Was Astronomicol
O Yes : $ v 0 Probobly Astronomical
2 No . 2 éngineers : 00 Possibly Astronomical l
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |O Other
! DO Insufficient Duta for Evoluation
40 minutes h erratic &X Unknown
Par PF Csr a, |
| Star color. Star shape. Rapid climbs Very erratic. hx as bright as star.
and dives. Changed shape as it changed altitude.
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82) god. ue : k hd

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28941394

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Longmeadow

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1952 1952-04-01