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Case FileNARA NAID 29001490 · T1206 Roll 48

Project Blue Book Case File

Pearl River, New YorkJune 1963

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 Pearl River, New York in June 1963. 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 48.

Reported location

Pearl River, New York

Date of incident

June 1963

State / country

NY / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 48

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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SER i Si a PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Git ;
: 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS:
j 0 Wos Balloon
26 June 1963 Pearl River New York O Probably Balloon
| | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon | |
Vi i 0 Was Aircraft :
| {aed 2000 RX Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar EXProbably Aircroft
GMT _27/01007Z 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE OD Was Astronomical |
0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
No Civilian : DO Possibly Astronomical | |
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [oJ80 0] 117] JSBAR CRANE | CU RT BIEN
| O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
/ 0 Unknown
2 minutes one South
| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Slowly moving object about like nort Characteristics of a/c sight-
star moving from the north to south ing present, Description,flight
passing overhead. No sound, Brightness and duration of sighting con-
; increased to about magnitude of Venug., sistent with this analysis,
Appearance not unlike ECHO, however
speed was about three times as fast. :
ECHO observed 10 minutes later, WX
clear, No clouds.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) bi
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