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Case FileNARA NAID 28962703 · T1206 Roll 23

Project Blue Book Case File

Newport Beach, CaliforniaJuly 1955

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Newport Beach, California in July 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

Newport Beach, California

Date of incident

July 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
Sar UFOB INDEX CARD
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1. DATE ER i LOCATION : | 12. CONCLUSIONS
1A: Wos Balloon
9 July 1965 | __ Newport Beach, Californias _|@ Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP a TR OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
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TER RN Ee OR DY AVES RVR xX Ground-Visual QO Ground-Radar as Aircraft
Q Probably Aircraft
3 i owt 09/212 21322 July 1965 O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft |
4 5. PHPTOS ood 8. SOURCE : 0O Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
: ZL No Civilian : ODO Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 8 Omer |
an : : iy d San Dieg PPro ht Data for Evaluation
owWar i» nknown .
5 Unknown Une from lsca PRB 3 Iam tiz dng A. ta edna)
10.. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS glia TR r——t |
ne (1) "flying saucer®, gray-white in color, | Flight 1-C, 46024 AISS, was instructed |
| was estimated to be 2,000" above the ocean to maks a limited follow-up investigatipn
by obssrmar. The object seemed to rotate on of this sighting. Upon racaint of AF
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962703

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