New Jersey, October 1958October 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 New Jersey, October 1958 in October 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 34.

Reported location

New Jersey, October 1958

Date of incident

October 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Bel
E 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS &
: FT eats 1 YY SOY 7 3
; f SRR DO Was Balloon : : 4
r TRE Ea : THR go 1 BG LTB DR Rag BIO) al BE i 7 O Probably Balloon ¥
3 a A ey Re RE RE RR A I me Te ne - 2
; 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0: “Fossibly: Balloon :|
E a BQ Ground- Visual DO Ground-Radar oi Probably Aivcrafr . i
£ GMT__Lo/z tsb o, O Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft :
& 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical 3
|S a Yes : DO Probably Astronomical }
: +O No ; Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical 3
3 I oP ener E— .
E 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE iOtherr cousin vicious Funda sui co 3
B : O Insufficient Data for Evaluation ;
= I CAE 7 re a] Unknown y :
7 15 minutes one Sl To RY :
# eee ee eee —————— E
k 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS gd
Rnd, bluish-white ohj » Size of dime.|s5i1 info indicates the obj was 1
Bale, os :
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) i 2
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28980501

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-10-01