Naha AB, Okinawa, September 1959September 1959

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Naha AB, Okinawa, September 1959 in September 1959. 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 36.

Reported location

Naha AB, Okinawa, September 1959

Date of incident

September 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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o J ‘ PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

P 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

EF 0 Was Balloon

Eb nib Sep PE Naha AB, Okinawa 0 Probably Balloon

3 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION dona ee hia

oo 5 5 0 Was Aircraft

Fe ae ’ 220 Ground-Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar a Probably Aircraft

. mi 14407 0 AirVisual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

4 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical

4 O Yes {1 Probably Astronomical [ata
+8 No Military 0 Possibly Astronomical

a 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE RRO thepistol slat 5
& 0 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
A 3 5 0 Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

4 Rnd, flare-like objs w/tail similar Witnesses probably saw a large

1 . to short contrail. Size of nickel at arm's | meteor durigg the last stages. The

[ length. White in color. Two rows of three illusion of climbing was probably

; ~ - £ 0 Ba t SA 3 . - o

3 abreast, changing t6 a "V' of five, then dug to the illusion created by

i four & disappearing one at a time until perspecfive or relative brightness.

i only one remained. Initial observation 10°

E elev w/disappearance at 15° elev.

1 ATIC FORM 3129 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28984382

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1959 1959-09-01