Martha's Vineyard, Mass., August 1953August 1953

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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 Martha's Vineyard, Mass., August 1953 in August 1953. 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 19.

Reported location

Martha's Vineyard, Mass., August 1953

Date of incident

August 1953

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 19

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28955967

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Martha's Vineyard

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1953 1953-08-01