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Case FileNARA NAID 28947885 · T1206 Roll 14

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Niagara Falls, N. Y., [ILLEGIBLE]Date unknown

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Summary

The OCR text contains material from multiple distinct cases, but the metadata indicates this file concerns only one incident: a sighting at Niagara Falls, New York on an undated occasion. The OCR quality degrades significantly in the later pages, which appear to document separate sightings at Los Alamos, New Mexico on August 8 and 9, 1952. Those pages fall outside the stated location and are inconsistent with the file's metadata. Based on the legible portions of the Niagara Falls case (pages 1 through 6), the following summary can be provided:

On August 6, 1952, observers at Niagara Falls Municipal Airport and Youngstown, New York, watched a large, extremely bright object with shifting lights of green, red, amber, white, and blue. The object first appeared at 11:34 p.m. and hovered in the area until 12:22 a.m., displaying sideways and up-and-down movements before accelerating away on a bearing of 315 degrees at extremely high speed. Observers spotted the object using binoculars and a theodolite (a surveying instrument that measures angles), and determined its altitude at approximately 60,000 feet. Two observers, described as reliable, included the weather officer at the airport. The night sky was clear with winds aloft of forty-five knots. Military investigators found no atmospheric conditions that could explain the sighting, no physical evidence, and no possibility of identification. Two aircraft flew through the area during the observation period but made no contact with the object. The Air Force concluded that the phenomenon remained unknown. The complete case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, totaling 16 pages.

Reported location

Niagara Falls, N. Y., [ILLEGIBLE]

Date of incident

Date unknown

State / country

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Page count

16 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 14

Original case file scans

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