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Case FileNARA NAID 28939300 · T1206 Roll 8

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Madagascer (Tarrytown N.Y.), July 1951July 1951

Insufficient Data

Summary

The OCR text for this case is too heavily degraded and fragmented across most pages to support a reliable summary. Pages 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are largely illegible OCR noise, and while pages 1, 7, and 8 contain some readable content, they do not provide a coherent account of an actual UFO sighting.

Page 1 is a brief record card indicating a report made on 9 July 1951 from "Madagascer (Tarrytown N.Y.)" with the evaluation "Was Hoax" and notes that sketches showed a "saucer" configuration and that a civilian claimed "flying saucers" were being manufactured in Madagascar, with no manufacturing site actually found. Pages 7 and 8 contain only follow-up correspondence and a skeptical intelligence analysis examining whether Madagascar had the industrial capacity for such manufacturing, ultimately concluding only "low possibility" existed. There is no coherent account of what was actually observed, by whom, or when.

The full case file of 8 pages is reproduced below as held by the National Archives.

Reported location

Madagascer (Tarrytown N.Y.), July 1951

Date of incident

July 1951

State / country

? / XX

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 8

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 8
Transcribed text
; i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE ( 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS ;
Was Balloon
9 July 51 Madagascer (Tarrytown N.Y.) 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
WEE RR 0 Ground- Visual N/ A © Ground-Radar - Probobly Aircraft
I O Air Visvel 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. P os o E taf 00 Was Astronomical
0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
O Ne N/A Civilian O Possibly Airaeiee
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE iin
OD Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
N/A N/A | N/A 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
oss on civilian stating that "flying While =xdmk sketches show condiguaration
saucers” are being manufactured in Madagascer
Also included are three sketches of sauce which could probably fly. Case evaluated
TSe las Hoax, No manufacturing sight in no
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28939300

Connected across the archive

Installations

White Sands

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19511951-07-01

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