Over SW Libya, January 1958January 1958

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 Over SW Libya, January 1958 in January 1958. 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 31.

Reported location

Over SW Libya, January 1958

Date of incident

January 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

V4
PROJECT 10u/3 RECORD CARD
1. DATE i LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
j O Was Balloon
4 January 38 | Over SW Libya O Probably Balloon
| . | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0. Fanshely Soiloon
Si O Was Aircraft
Local — 0 Ground- Visual v) round-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
; (7 7 TA (104 Jr, BENE ES XXAir Visual Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS « SOURCE Was Astronomical Meteor
j O Yes O Probably Astronomical
| 2 No Military O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Offers gst ni lL
O Insufficient Data for Evaluction
= Sis 0 Unknown |
: OD Secs ore NE
16. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS
' bright orange light observed strank4 Possible this could be satellite
| ing across the sky. An extremely brigHtportion of Sputnik I, which is |
blue flash occurred which reflected ifto’/ supposed to have 'died' on ag |
the cockpit of the A/C. Simultaneously about + Jan 58, However the dura
: very hich acceleration was noted. A/C| tion of the sighting is only
navigator observed a jammin: on his 5 secs. No flaking or break-up
: radar set approx 10 mins prior to noted, as is normally expected
sighting, After approx 1 hr on course, for a satellite decay, It is mors
a thin outline of what appsared to be [aProbable that this was a meteor
vapor trail or high cirrus was sighte observation,
i on what was thought to be the relative .
BE nosition of the obj when originally sighted.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28976512

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-01-01