Project Blue Book Case File
PORT AUSTIN, MICH., August 1952August 1952
Summary
The OCR of this 40-page case file is severely degraded. Pages 1 through 5 and 10 through 16 contain text about incidents in Peru, Japan, and Georgia that have nothing to do with Port Austin, Michigan in August 1952. Pages 6 through 8 appear to contain radar-related military correspondence about Port Austin, but the OCR is too fragmented and garbled to extract reliable facts. Pages 9, 17, 18, 19, and onward contain mixed, overlapping, and often incoherent text from multiple unrelated incidents. The file does not present a coherent single case narrative.
However, embedded within the file are a few legible radar-related documents (pages 6-8 and 12) that reference Port Austin, Michigan, August 1952, and mention radar detection of objects at speeds around 1200 knots, tracked near Cora Bay, Canada. The exact nature, timing, and outcome of this sighting cannot be reliably extracted from the OCR as presented.
Given the OCR quality, a responsible summary cannot be written without potentially inventing details. This case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives across 40 pages of microfilm.
Reported location
PORT AUSTIN, MICH., August 1952
Date of incident
August 1952
State / country
? / XX
Page count
40 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 14