Project Blue Book Case File
Sidney, OhioMay 1949
Summary
The OCR quality on this case file is too poor to construct a reliable summary. While the metadata indicates this is a Sidney, Ohio sighting from May 1949 that the Air Force rated as "unknown," the scanned text is heavily garbled and illegible across most pages. Isolated passages suggest multiple witnesses observed a bright, silver disc-shaped object in the morning hours of May 3, 1949, with some accounts describing it as traveling at high speed and others noting a grayish trail, but the OCR corruption makes it impossible to accurately extract dates, times, locations, witness names, or investigative details from the document itself.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives across 9 pages of microfilm T1206, Roll 5.
Reported location
Sidney, Ohio
Date of incident
May 1949
State / country
OH / US
Page count
9 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 5