Philadelphia Airport, Penn., October 1957October 1957

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Summary

On October 12, 1957, at about 1520 (Greenwich time) near the Philadelphia airport in Pennsylvania, witnesses saw one small, very brilliant object. It dived straight down from a very high altitude, then leveled off and disappeared to the south. Its speed was estimated as very great compared with a jet in the area at the same time. There were two visual sightings from the ground. The weather was clear. There was no radar contact and no physical evidence. The Air Force record card lists the conclusion as possibly aircraft, noting it could have been a jet over the city near the large airport.

Reported location

Philadelphia Airport, Penn., October 1957

Date of incident

October 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

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: pS PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD fy
| I. DATE ; 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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12 October 1957 Philadelphia Airport, Penn! |O Probably Balloon :
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Beitoon |
Roeole | cBrewdVisvel O Ground-Reder 8 Probekly Aivereh |
cM 12/1520Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rodar |X Possibly Aireroft
| 5 PHOTO! ; » SOURCE O Was Astronomicol
O Yes O Probably Astronomicel
Ne {villian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BD DIN mapisiinnsmio son |
O Insufficient Date for Evaluetion
DO Unknown
: ale 0 or QNE ROUL
BE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Small very brilliant object dived . Verylimited information, but
vertically from very high altitude, possible jet a/c over crowded’ |
levelled off & disappeared south, city & near large airport. No
Speed estimated to he very great radar or other reports of any-
in relation to jet in area, thing unusual in area. |
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28972118