San Francisco, Calif., October 1947 - Incident Number: 179October 1947

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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, Calif., October 1947 - Incident Number: 179 in October 1947. 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 2.

Reported location

San Francisco, Calif., October 1947 - Incident Number: 179

Date of incident

October 1947

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 2

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

UNCLASSIFIED Incident A179

ATC NO. [illegible]
DATE OF INFO. [illegible]
AP NO. [illegible] WATCH WITNESSED, CALIF.
COSG NO. [illegible] PLACE NATIONAL [illegible]
TIME O/S POINT [illegible] DATE IN TO ACTION
TYPE OF ACTIVITY [illegible] COND. [illegible] "UNIDENTIFIED"
[illegible] DAWN [illegible] REMARK [illegible]
DATE [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
COMUNY [illegible] LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED
NO. IN GROUP [illegible] TYPE OF OBSERVATION
COLOR [illegible] REMARKS [illegible]
SHAPE [illegible]

Secondary AFIC Form 329
(Except MISSING)
[illegible]

UNCLASSIFIED

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28929960

Connected across the archive

People

W. A. West

Organizations

Air Materiel Command Air Weather Service Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Installations

Andrews Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book