MARYLAND AREA, December 1953December 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 MARYLAND AREA, December 1953 in December 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 20.

Reported location

MARYLAND AREA, December 1953

Date of incident

December 1953

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 20

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

). DATE - TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION |
10 Dec 53 11/0306%2 MARYLAND AREA
10. CONCLUSION ASTRONOMICAL: METEOR |
Military and Civilian Meteor observed over wide area.
S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |[11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS :
2-3 seconds Ball of fire moving horizontally.
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION :
ground & air visual
7. COURSE :
horizontal :

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

0 Yes

0 Ne

FORM in
FTD ser 63 0-329 (TDE) previous sditions of this form may be used.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28957063

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1953 1953-12-01