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Case FileNARA NAID 28996396 · T1206 Roll 45

Project Blue Book Case File

New York City, N.Y., March 1962March 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

I appreciate your patience, but I need to be direct: the OCR text from this 11-page case file is too heavily degraded to produce an accurate, responsible summary. Most pages consist of garbled fragments, incomplete sentences, and unreadable passages that make it impossible to extract reliable case details.

From the one legible page (Page 1, the record card), I can see that on March 1962 in New York City, an object was observed changing positions, with an estimated size of 50 percent, speed of 600 miles per hour, and altitude of 100,000 feet. The Air Force's evaluation was marked "Unknown," and the file notes that the object's speed, duration, and maneuvers "indicate probable misinterpretation."

However, without being able to read the supporting documentation, witness statements, investigation summaries, or detailed analysis throughout the remaining ten pages, I cannot responsibly expand this into a full public summary. The OCR has failed to capture the narrative content needed to tell this story accurately.

The full case file, as held by the National Archives (11 pages, Microfilm T1206, Roll 45), is reproduced below.

I recommend having this microfilm rescanned with better OCR processing, or consulting the original film directly, before publishing a detailed summary of this case.

Reported location

New York City, N.Y., March 1962

Date of incident

March 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

11 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 11
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] es 1 Ey Cr et pr OEE RE ELS FoR LAE
p I. DATE | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Ss He 0 Was Balloon
iC March 62 liew York Ci oN. Vs 00 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIMEZ GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION “|B Possibly Belloon
1756 ; a G: -R 0 Was Aircraft
Local —_— BR Ground- Visual Ground-Rodar 0° Probably Aircraft
y [D058 sa
q CMT or ve Js ae et 0 AirVisual 00 Air-Intarcept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
F. “BE ‘DLina Fe Le ry Tol Ee EA,
| 3 5, PHOTOS 6. 50URCE 0 Wes Astronomical
I C Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
i “Ni EIR © Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | o- "COURSE CRE CL ee
h 0 Insufficient Data for Evoluation
; ly | - on 0 Unknown
; i oC lil | 3S 23 Ok
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 3 7 its in formation 11. COMMENTS Objt viewed at tui 1 oh J
¢oserved to change positions. Size estimeated [Eitude in licates witness hells 8" es
inl tay Bon i rng ong ap Rng : ue Ne CEu01 W285 Dellieved then
i t 50%, Speed 600 MPH. Al Citude 100,000, CO be at extreme h ight. Opis with 50°
EN A a tala)! : Ria Sapna
Lengo at 100,000 ould be difficult
dq LO see. No info confi icting with s/n
F - » Ar res de £m ~ 3 3 4a >= 3 53 ro
servation. Speed duration nd nansuvers
indicate probable misinterpretation
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E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28996396