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Case FileNARA NAID 28949063 · T1206 Roll 14

Project Blue Book Case File

Petersburg, VirginiaAugust 1952

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 Petersburg, Virginia in August 1952. The full case file (6 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 14.

Reported location

Petersburg, Virginia

Date of incident

August 1952

State / country

VA / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 14

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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| 1. DATE ( fe LOCATION ( ky CONCLUSIONS ET :
25 An S52 Dotoarshurr, Virsinia 0 V¥os Balloon | :
| SR... hd ids dy: Re. G Probably Balloon {
3. DATE-TIME GROUP |& TYPE OF OLSERVATION fi WTAE Bea |
| ws, : CTE tO Wos Aircraft
| ET ER Ee RL Basi Eb VAD, SSO ~ Ground-Visual O Ground-Radar |Q Probably Aircroit
} CURR oT RAR ) CO Air- Visual 0 Aie-intercept Radar [~™* Possibly Aircrait ;
I's. PHOTOS | 6. SOURCE re Was Astronomical
i O Yes PRE ~ ns 0 Probobly Astronomice! !
| S No | Venver of GCC EE Possibly Astronomical | i
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION [8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE IE I ici nina ia
! BA H - 12 insufficient Dara for Evaluation |
| 6 seconds. 2 | [8 Usiinwsn |
COTE TA SR Ee TERRE ARNE MS TES SRE [SEE Ret See NUNN ote FT Se A TE LM I SUT [!
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING jo COMMENTS y |
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! Very fast, change direction. Yellow flonz, shooting oul Irom bealnd
object. change: directions. |
: lo rention of A/C in arca ty TWX. |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28949063

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