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Case FileNARA NAID 28983753 · T1206 Roll 36

Project Blue Book Case File

Pikesville, MarylandJuly 1959

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 Pikesville, Maryland in July 1959. 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 36.

Reported location

Pikesville, Maryland

Date of incident

July 1959

State / country

MD / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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8 i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
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= 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
bi: 0 Was Balloon
4 8 Jul 59 Pikesville, Maryland O Probably Balloon
. 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 8 Possibly Bulison |
i 25030 ; i Vi 3 0 Was Aircraft

4 {a caleba EN bles dics tL bs Tigi .0x Ground-Vi sual O Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft

8 GMT_0O /01 207 Ji 59 0 AirVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

4 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical

E O Yes O Probably Astronomical

i 0: Neo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical

: 0 Phat akc or RIE Ry |

. 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BS Other EXOD Reflection

# DO Insufficient Data for Evaluation

: Aha i H 0 Unknown

E OH-0 min 1 SW - NE

- 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

3 Rnd, bluish-white obj, size of pinhead. Tour witnesses. Probably reflection

: {| Moved up & down, but followed a definite flighffm car lights on inversion. Inversicn

4 path. Went out of sight above horizon. In present fm 5,500 to G000 ft. Area of

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E sight 6 to 8 hins. observation located near indélined

: bridge where lights fm car would hit

Lr inversion.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28983753

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