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Case FileNARA NAID 28962116 · T1206 Roll 23

Project Blue Book Case File

San Francisco, CaliforniaMay 1955

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 Francisco, California in May 1955. 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 23.

Reported location

San Francisco, California

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
d oy ! ? Was Balloon
17 May 1955 | San Francisco, California 8 Probably Balleon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. YYPE OF OBSERVATION a ey EY
; 17 | pA Se SAN SY O\ Ground- Vi sual 0 Ground-Rador a Beaticiy Rivka
GMT. igs/0evow 0 Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
3 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was AstronomicolJup iter
k 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
Bo E No - Civirtan {Possibly Astronomical
i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE OT a iii
3 10 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
| stationary, Jj}os tunknown i
b Loaphrax tive minutes... one ....  lsout no {yagt i
j 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS" *
g One round, bright reddish bronze Possibly astro (Jupiter,
i object approximately size of head Description of sighting &
1 of pin held at arm's length was direction to the object from |
[ observed to hang in western sky : observer strongly suggests pianet
j for few minutes, then apparently Jupiter, ;
3 to disappear at tremendous spe=d, |
; Observation was aided by use of |
: optical. means.
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962116

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