Niagara Falls AFB, New YorkMay 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 Niagara Falls AFB, New York in May 1955. The full case file (5 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

Niagara Falls AFB, New York

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

NY / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
i . DATE 2. LOCATION 12, CONCLUSIONS
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! 0 Wea yo
| 3 6 A +0 Probably Balloon
a May 1955 ~~ | Niagara Falls AFB, New ¥ BH Peswitly Balloon
3. DATETIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Local RA et disaadbl i 0 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 8 be A
a C r § §
omT_19/01407% Ho Bir vi sual O Air-Intercept Radar |UD Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE HX Was Astronomical Metcor :
i O Yes QO Probably Astronomicol
| ——— Ble | Military (F86D Pilot) __ |O Possibly Astonomicol
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE TIPE, 11 Re AR
; O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
: . O Unknown
2_- 3 seconds __oneg descent (slight) |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: One spherical, white, object approxi Sight ing descriptive of meteor
l nately 10 feet in diameter was @bservation,
| observed by a F86D pilot while

| flying over Niagara AFB, New York,

: Object was observed for a period

| of two to three seconds while pilot

was banking to the left. Pilot cir-

cled the area three or four times

. to effect a further sighting with

; negative results,

1

: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
a eA A ARIE i 0 Rh 599 2 AS al hit 0 So de ; ¢

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962124

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

New York Niagara Falls AFB Niagara Falls AFB, NY

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-05-01