St Thomas, Virgin Islands, December 1961December 1961

Insufficient Data

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 Thomas, Virgin Islands, December 1961 in December 1961. 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 44.

Reported location

St Thomas, Virgin Islands, December 1961

Date of incident

December 1961

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 44

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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RE HE I PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
E 1. DATE - 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS. |
4 O Wes Bolloon

| 4 6 December 1961 St Thomas, Virgin Islands 3 Probably Bales

| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION BE Na Wn
E 1540 EST i . # D Woe Aiveroft |
Locel = B Ground- Visual O Ground-Roder 0 Probably Aircroft \ |
E PR 5 RS A a AirVisuol O Air-Intercopt Rodor OD Possibly Aircroht
3 5. PHOTOS - SOURCE DO Wos Astronomical
i O Yes g D Probobly Astronomical
; B Ne Civilian d O Possibly Astronomicol
: 7. LENGTM OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 6 Other Missile .
: ; O Insufficient Dato for Evoluation
1 8 Min. One Ascending Besa
]  ————————————————————————— ett ret ——ee. et ree ete ete et eee eee eres eee tt et eee tet ete eet eee ee Ae eee eee eet el eee — eee eee
4 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
4 Coject ascending fading, increasing in Test 6201 Jupiter was launched 13

E brilliance. Believed to be a rocket by minutes prior to the reported

[3 the observer. sighting.
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28995748

Connected across the archive

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-12-01