St Martins Bay off Sand Point, Mich, August 1957August 1957

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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 St Martins Bay off Sand Point, Mich, August 1957 in August 1957. The full case file (6 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 28.

Reported location

St Martins Bay off Sand Point, Mich, August 1957

Date of incident

August 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

E PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 3 1. DATE ; 2. LOCATION ji CONCLUSIONS
§ ; [T PIGR IV SRE aah :
Pa St Martins Bay © Was Balloon
| 9 August 1957 off Sand Point, MicQ Probably Balloon =a |
4 13 oareTine croup E TYPE OF OBSERVATION EY FORNIDYY ON
< 1 RYT ~ r 0 Was Aircraft | |
: Er pn SS CR re SS O- Ground- Visual O Ground-Rador O Probably Aireraf?
E> GWT 09/23427Z | 0 Air Visuol 0 Air-Intarcept Radar O Possibly Aireraft
E 5. PHRCTODS ; | . SCURCE 0 Was Astronomical
So OYes H 0 Probobly Astronomical
a Ss For tian 0 Possibly Astronomicol
FE 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION : 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE D Ofhee owes ong 00
= 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluetion
E | 0 Unknown |
: 5 353 ta 40 seconds! three | not given ir co]
4 10. STIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING {11. COMMENTS ; |
Eo Throe igar shaped objects .connected | In-flight refu2lingz operations \
bE tcgather to form a "YY" shape. Color | may involve one to three a/c p
4 sil ~ and black, A faint whistling | and could present this unasual
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971110

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Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

St Martins Bay off Sand Point

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-08-01