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Case FileNARA NAID 28971743 · T1206 Roll 29

Project Blue Book Case File

San Antonio, TexasSeptember 1957

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 San Antonio, Texas 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 29.

Reported location

San Antonio, Texas

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; OD Wos Bolloon
20 September 1957 San Antonio, Texas 8 Probably Been
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION FRY, w——
O Wes Aircraft
omy. 21/00207 : O Aie Visual O Air-Intercopt Rodor |D Possibly Aireroft
5. PHOTO « SOURCE OX Wes Astronomieel (S72)
QO VYes O Probably Astronomic
No Civilian OD Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CE RISER Se CC RO
DO Insufficient Date for Evalvetion
O Unknown
twenty minutes one westerl

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

One round bluish white object the Probably astro. Arcturus just set.

size of the head of a pin at arm's If Venus or Jupiter on ecliptic

length, Object was moving west very between 17-18 they could fit. No

slowly and was in sight for twenty ephimirus for 1957.

minutes, ;

No report in file,
ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) L
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971743

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

San AntonioSan Antonio, TXTexas

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19571957-09-01

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