National City Airport, Calif., May 1958May 1958

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 National City Airport, Calif., May 1958 in May 1958. The full case file (6 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 33.

Reported location

National City Airport, Calif., May 1958

Date of incident

May 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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eA PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD be
1. DATE | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS :
O Was Balloon
23-24 May S58 Natbnal City Airport, Cali g Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION TIP en
DE ATI icosnsiciiiiinicaninins H XGround- Visual O Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
i Q Probably Aircraft
CMT 23/10452 24/1030Z O Ain Visval 0 Air-Intercept Radar (w] Possibly Aircraft
5S. PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical |
NXNo : Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION " NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CHE RR ry,
XK Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
0 Unknown |
10 mins one : irdling
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS
{ 23) a rnd silver white obj was seen c The maneuvers rptd rule out a
circling w/verticle movements in the balloon. It is possible the obj |
Sw. could be an a/c ciréling for a
| 24) a red, orange, & white obj, oval [idanding; however, the obj disap-
in shape, was seen circling in the WSW| peared in the same spot as it
area, was first seghted., It could also
be a searchlight shining on a
i cloud, The amount of cloud cover
: ; was omitted however. There is no
| size given, Cannot properly
evaluate without the size & clouf |
"ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-05-01