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Case FileNARA NAID 28958491 · T1206 Roll 21

Project Blue Book Case File

Rockville, MarylandJune 1954

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 Rockville, Maryland in June 1954. The full case file (4 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 21.

Reported location

Rockville, Maryland

Date of incident

June 1954

State / country

MD / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
TT eo ee eer pr re EE
{ 1. DATE {2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
"oT NE) [Eas ad Mes rt Wos Balloon
lune 135 Rockville, Mar O Wes Balloo
il as gt ! See ryland 0 Probably Bolleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP TA TYP® OF OBSERVATION ois baht ad
1200-01 00ES (N | ar i
Local _2300-0100EST (N) “H Ground- Visual D Ground-Rader 0 Was Arena =
08/0L007 a Lfootty are i
CMT 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercopt Radar | 0 Possibly Aircrait
5S. PHOTOS | . SOURCE IX Wos Astronomical ST AR/ PLANT
0 Yas H OU Probobiy Astronomical
3 “lo Civilian © Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH DF OBSERYATION 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE mea), SES I EE SB
{ 01 Insufficient Dato for Evoluation
MNwo H ATS i Not Henorted J Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING RRR 11. COMMENTS
TREN armnmaarad 14s hed ~ht ~ ve FE I Se [2 rr Ames Ahh ayam =F ves AF Ye inn / TOY Ava ade
LC Apel < i . VOL EILU » PTS . ’ - & <4 Ls dente 218 Cll Led a NA i. ¥,% 4 J Ld 37 gt Raf CI TF
ranges, No estimate of size. No asrodynamic observation, Positional data not included
| feature noticed, Object bounced like ball, So Astro body not established. Case
nowever, also remained shah’ iy at times, carried in Astro category
Dark on right side. Radar = i/o observation
produced nagative results,
RADO fr Hq USAF
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28958491

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