Newfoundland, April 1955April 1955

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 Newfoundland, April 1955 in April 1955. The full case file (4 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 23.

Reported location

Newfoundland, April 1955

Date of incident

April 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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: : | PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
: 3 ————a—
: 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 0 Was Bolloon
: 30 April 1955 Newfoundland PRR 0 Brdbdbly Tatoo
3 TRIN, AWS rill 1900 eT OBSERVATION ee ——|0 Possibly Balloon
9 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
1 Local — i Se Sa (1 Ground- Visual | 0) Ground-Radar a a strove
“A [4 N .
GMT. 30/0808% ARN X*¥Air- Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
28 fw é. SOURCE 7X Was Astronomical venus
i O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
1 : Sols 2 Milita : it 0 Possibly Astronomical
pr 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0, Other ———
3 0 ' Insufficient Data for Evaluation
S 0 Unknown
4 38 minutes SHERRY Ds TT RRA OT
E 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
1 white light, turned blue and then Evaluated as Venus by rpting
3 pack to white. Round object - seemed officials in subsequent TWX.
E transparent, and was burning.Very
. high speed.
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a: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961855

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-04-01