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Case FileNARA NAID 28959491 · T1206 Roll 21

Project Blue Book Case File

Palm Springs, CaliforniaSeptember 1954

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 Palm Springs, California in September 1954. 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 21.

Reported location

Palm Springs, California

Date of incident

September 1954

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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: % September 195! NE Palm Spring liforni Lp Wos Balloon i |
4 2 z 954 sD OPEL BER La ifornia O Probably Balloon
I'S. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Fr ——{0@ Possibly Balloon
{ Ti Fn Sans i ! 3 O Wos Aircraft
o fF teed Were Sang ysl O Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
FS 4 eur. 90/051862 ~~ LX Air Visual ~ 0 Air-intercept Radar o Hibs Aircraft
5. PHOTOS - SOURCE O Was Astronomical :
k a OVYes : 0 Probably Astronomical
EN - BNe 2Pilots(Diffsrent Planes) QO Possibly Astronemical
~§ 7 LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8 NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE IRR al cs :
Bis a sutiicions Data for Evaluation
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Not Reported 1 S He
10, BRIE® SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |11. COMMENTS
: Blue l_ght moving at high steed in southerly| Insufficient data duration or distance
: direction, Estimated alt 12,000 ft. Observed| not reported. Mannsr of disapnearance
: from 2 a/c. Same light seen at different also ommtied.
Reis points by pilots. No acit reported in area. |
- ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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