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Case FileNARA NAID 28975674 · T1206 Roll 31

Project Blue Book Case File

Tampa, FloridaDecember 1957

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 Tampa, Florida in December 1957. 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 31.

Reported location

Tampa, Florida

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

FL / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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). DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Was Balloon
amber 195 Tampa, Florida O° Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
’ I ¥ FIX XWos Aircraft
| (Hy 1 Es eR AR $<Ground- Vi sual O Ground-Radar O Probably Aircraft
[4] M2157 0 Ain Visual O Air-Iintercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
| S. ‘PHOTOS a O Was Astronomical
DVYes vs O Probably Astronomical
BN Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BOM ie a
0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation .
45 seconds one wavering BD Unknown
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS
Egg shaped object, two white lights, Description has characteristics
flshing green light to rear, Light of a/c. Sound of motors could
pink, 250 ft long, 100 ft wide, Heard have come from some other source, |
| | motors shutting on and olf, Made tight
circle and hovered, Passad over hori-
zon with wavering fliht path,
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975674

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