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Case FileNARA NAID 28971677 · T1206 Roll 28

Project Blue Book Case File

Point Pleasant, New JerseySeptember 1957

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Point Pleasant, New Jersey in September 1957. 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 28.

Reported location

Point Pleasant, New Jersey

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

NJ / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
od ; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Henny |
BE |. oate 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS’ .
4 | 0 Wos Balloon |
i 19 September 1957 Point Pleasant, New Jersey [DO Probably Balloon
| |'3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Belleen |
1 {Ep A SE EET SR GR Co eas X Ground- Visual DO Ground-Radar 0 Balk rath
i GM 20 / 00407 0 AirVisual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircroft |
. |5PHoYos - SOURCE O Was Astronomical | |
: 0 Yes 0D Probably Astronomicol
4 XM No | Civilian 0 Possibly ill, ;
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION i NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Bf Xorher_Hallucination
: O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
E DO Unknown
g one hour one | N to S then Up
~ |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS /
3 Object larger than a house, shape of Anything the size of a2 house with
a boomerang, white (voice with no unusual shape would have resulted
E accent told source not to say anything| in a flood of reports. There
1 of this). Search amd made of landing were no others from radar or any
4 area, Grass was flattened and bore other source. Report attributed
1 wagon like tracks (according to source] to psvchological causes.
i" ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971677

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