SEAL BEACH NAVAL DEPOT, CALIF, December 1953December 1953

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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 SEAL BEACH NAVAL DEPOT, CALIF, December 1953 in December 1953. 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 20.

Reported location

SEAL BEACH NAVAL DEPOT, CALIF, December 1953

Date of incident

December 1953

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 20

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

I. DATE - TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION |
’ | i
31 Dec 53 31/1930z “ SEAL BEACH NAVAL DEPOT, CALIF |
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSIONG rrr MISSILE ROCKET
MILITARY Poss Rocket or missile, probable correiation with rpt 45 mins
earlier, regarded as two separate observations because of the
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS difference in time end direction d flight of the obj. |
1,2,k,
S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
not reported Silver bright obj reflecting light observed to the South
flying North at high speed, est alt at 30,000 ft. One obj
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION dividing into two sets of two. Disappeared into haze.
\ ground visual
8. PHOTOS
0 Yes
RX Ne
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
0 Yes
O Ne :
FORM Wil
FTD ser ¢3 0-329 (TDE) previous oditiens of this form may bo used,

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28957201

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

SEAL BEACH NAVAL DEPOT

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1953 1953-12-01