Travis County, TexasApril 1955

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 Travis County, Texas in April 1955. 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 23.

Reported location

Travis County, Texas

Date of incident

April 1955

State / country

TX / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

:
: ( PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: 0 Was Balloon

30 April 1955 Travis County, Texas O Probably Balloon |

| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION i Tees Ballon

Local ee X® Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar a Erty Biririts

§ CMT 30/ 13307 SRE TT TE 0 Air-Vi sual OQ Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft

: 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0O Vas Astronomical
i D Yes O Probably Astronomical i
] MKNo Military O Possibly FEHSHEMISE .
1 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0, othe UNIDENTIFIED

0 ida Data for Evaluation

: XIX Unknown

. § 2-3 seconds Lo four | West to East

} 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Four black objects, about size of a UNIDENTIFIED

: pencil eraser at arm's length, flying

in a cluster, traveled a wide angle

i of observation in the sky and

3 disappeard to the wast. A "shooshing"

{ sound accompanied this sighting and

; initially attazacted the observer's

k attention to these objects,

3 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961866

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Texas Travis County Travis County, TX

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-04-01