New Orleans, LouisianaApril 1955

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Summary

The OCR text from this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. Large portions across multiple pages are either unintelligible, severely garbled, or consist only of fragmented characters. While the cover sheets (Pages 1 and 9) indicate that a pilot of Air National Guard Flight 834 sighted a large, silver, delta wing-shaped object over New Orleans on April 21, 1955 at 1623 hours (4:23 p.m.), and that the investigation concluded the object was "probably" an aircraft, the body of the case file, which would contain the detailed investigative findings, witness interviews, and analysis, is too corrupted for reliable transcription.

The full 13-page case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives.

Reported location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Date of incident

April 1955

State / country

LA / US

Page count

13 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

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\ ( PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 1. DATE "|2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
21 A 1 0 SG hi
st rr 3 $e 00 Probably Balloon |
4% Opril 1995 [| _ New Orleans, Louisiana [RB Erich Rolises
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
LS CY aii li cl Gulbis aniiate C1 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar BX XP cabal] Roveraft
omMT_21/22002 XXAir-Vi sual €) Air-Interceot Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0O Was Astronomical
0 Yes 1a Probably Astronomical
AEE EO A ee O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Ci RR Nee
0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
3 0 Unknown
ki CASTE RE RET Te Se ISSR +1 AOS MGI || ARES. A SA SERMONS
3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
9 One object with the appearance of Investigated by Flight 2-C :
; a delta wing a/c was observed by th with the conclusion that the
source while flying over New Orlean object in question was prob-
J as an observer, Object appeared to ably a/c,
be bright silver in color.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961777