Mount Vernon, New YorkJune 1963

Unidentified

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 Vernon, New York in June 1963. 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 48.

Reported location

Mount Vernon, New York

Date of incident

June 1963

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 48

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS,
i 25 June 1963 Mount Vernon, New York 0 Was Balloon
| 0 Probably Balloon
4 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ——| 8 Possibly Balloon
| locollQOOPM ~~ | &Ground:-Visual O Ground-Radar Gall hl
t GMT 26/045-01002 : 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar Q Possibly Aircraft
4 5. PHOTOS : SOURCE D Was Astronomical
: 0 Yes : O Probably Astronomical |
1 of No Civilian O Possibly Astronomicol
‘3 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0) Other eben lin Sys 1
BE S minutes ona NE 2 insuliistent Data for Evaluation
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: Object believed to be ECHO in orbit in Duration and description consistant wit
3 flight to NE across the big dipper. Thought |analysis as high flying a/c. ECHO in
E to move too repidly for a/c. In sight for Souther Hempisphere at time. If witness
4 5 minutes. on Daylight Saving Time ECHO was over y
4 the Pacific Ocean, Not visible in New
; York.
i ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29001445

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Places

Mount Vernon, NY New York

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1963 1963-06-01