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Case FileNARA NAID 28975576 · T1206 Roll 31

Project Blue Book Case File

Mount Olive, North CarolinaDecember 1957

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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 Mount Olive, North Carolina in December 1957. 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 31.

Reported location

Mount Olive, North Carolina

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

NC / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
H
i) PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; 0 Wos Balloon
Lor Mount Qlive, North Carolina [O Lakohly ities
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Q Possibly Balloon |
O Was Ai f
LL — :B¢Ground- Vi suol O Ground-Radar = a A oft
ony. Q2/QR26%< 0 Air Visuol a Air-Intercept Radar o Possibly Aircraft 3
5. PHOTOS - SOUR TX Was Astronomicol #7 vI|
O Yes Q Probobly Astronomical
Ne Civilian 0 Possibly Astronemicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BONER eg is
O Insufficient Date for Evaluation]
5 minutes one SW 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ;
One object, round, 2 feat in diameter, | All characteristics of object
color rad, Object sighted moving in reported is of the planet Venus
SW sky in straight path, and at time of sighting Venus was
about to set below horizon,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975576

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