Project Blue Book Case File
South Bay, Fla., December 1948 - Incident Number: [ILLEGIBLE]December 1948
Summary
The OCR quality on this file is too poor to support a reliable summary. Pages 2 and 8-10 are heavily degraded and mostly illegible. While pages 3-7 contain some readable material, including a newspaper clipping describing a sighting at South Bay, Florida in December 1948, and references to an incident numbered 229 with a note that the "case dropped," the core investigative details are too fragmented to reconstruct with confidence.
What can be stated from the readable portions: the incident occurred in South Bay, Florida in December 1948, multiple observers reported seeing an unusual object described as resembling a "great, big kite" with red, blue, and yellow coloring, and the Air Force's final evaluation concluded the case should be dropped. However, the specific reasons for this conclusion and most investigative details remain unclear due to OCR degradation.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, 10 pages.
Reported location
South Bay, Fla., December 1948 - Incident Number: [ILLEGIBLE]
Date of incident
December 1948
State / country
? / XX
Page count
10 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 3