Sunbury, OhioDecember 1951

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Sunbury, Ohio in December 1951. The full case file (4 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 9.

Reported location

Sunbury, Ohio

Date of incident

December 1951

State / country

OH / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 9

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

y PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE { 2. LOCATION ( 12. CONCLUSIONS
: 0 Woes Balloon
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{ Doc 1951 Sonburv. Ohio QO Probobly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION W VOOIy Seah |
Local Whe RRR DO Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodor 0 Was Aircraft
07/21 07 QO Probably Aircraft
ATE ws 0 Air-Visuval 0 Air-Intsrcept Radar D Possibly Aircroft
S. PHOTOS g. SOURCE [#0] Was Astronomical
0 Yes OD Probobly Astronomical
tf No Civilian : DO Possibly Astronomical
ee ee cee ee ete eet ee te et, Se re le een ee te ee 2 A te ir rr 4 tra em | 4 INTHOHONTTITD
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE B Other Ui tUNTINIED
O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
20 minutes Multinle rg WY Sy
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Group of weird shining objects at tremendous URTD TIFIED
altitides, Observed first faint specks, in / 7” -
north appeared to te stationary, then moved > ctw (lerc. [04CR [fo n€K
gp yg appeared from size foi. Asse dee CXC INGTre~S
3 CLIN) 21 oY Yor oes) Ehiage po er ’  H- PP
of sphere, je ct exploded, no flash, Other rE THE 0 BSCR VAT any
specks appeared ia the area until at least mA ti
100 were in group. Object then travle to Ves! 5
wiera it disappeared behind a cloud bank,
Observed through telescope. Tobal duration
ves 30 minutes, Revort from ncuspaper,
ATIC FORM 320 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28940402

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Ohio Sunbury Sunbury, OH

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1951 1951-12-01