Miami (MacDill AFB) Florida, January 1956January 1956

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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 Miami (MacDill AFB) Florida, January 1956 in January 1956. 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 24.

Reported location

Miami (MacDill AFB) Florida, January 1956

Date of incident

January 1956

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

Cn [
A PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
. fv DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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% ; : As ETERS Puch ) ; O Was Balloon
22 January 1956 "| Miami(MacDill AFB) Florida |O Probably Balloon j ;
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPEOF OBSERVATION Bi oshtly Eden |
: Usealsmiiiile viel) J Linc ion XX Ground- Visual DO Ground-Radar a Probably Alrerafs ; :
ONT. 22/0207... 0 Air Visual : 0 Air-Intercept Radar o, ue ssibly Aircraft 5
~ | §& PHOTOS 8. SOURCE DO Was Astronomical Meteor |
D Yes HK XProbably Astronomical ; )
Ya Xoo Civilian A y 0 Possibly Astronomical |
—— [1
. |'7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION - =. 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BO Otherics ieiepsi ©oii iy |
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 q - 0 Unknown
unknown (quick) one SW to NE
10.. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ) i
. | Round small bluish white object Similar report from St. Peter- |
{4 with small tail like a comet. sburg, Fla, and report from
CL Miami, Meteor sighting as indi-
0: To cated by wide area of observa- :
a tion, {
_ ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964638

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1956 1956-01-01