New York, N.Y., February 1955February 1955

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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 York, N.Y., February 1955 in February 1955. 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 22.

Reported location

New York, N.Y., February 1955

Date of incident

February 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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| i, ‘DETR 4 AY ( T2 Location: ( 112. CONCLUSIONS
| ak E Was Balloon
15 February 1955 lew York, N. Y. 0 Probably Balloon
. |3. DATETIME GROUP i TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ey Li Le Le
| Lpaglas tute ns 0 Ground- Visual O Ground-Rador : a ad oR
CMT 0 Air Vi sual 0 Air-Intercept Radar pi Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
MM Yes t 0 Probably Astronomical ;
Nf : Civilian photourapher E Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 3 Other. Probably oatical
: N/a (Object aya observed 2 Habib Data tor Evaluation
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_ later discovered on film.) | ~~ 2 ~~ | Statlomayy | =
- 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11. COMMENTS
Twe whita aspets with darker crosses across Concur in the conclusion that "amota®
their centers shewad np on photzraphic in the pictures wera probably produced
nagatires during the process of davelopment by optical phenomena,
of the Zilm, 7There was no previous sighting
of either of thesa "sbjecta®, Tota: Hg, LE02d AISS wonld be inter-
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961238

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

New York

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-02-01