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Case FileNARA NAID 28964431 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Utica, New YorkDecember 1955

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 Utica, New York in December 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 24.

Reported location

Utica, New York

Date of incident

December 1955

State / country

NY / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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~ [1 DATE - 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

| : D Wos Bolloon

~ [27 Dec 55 Utica, New York O Probably Balloon

"| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ABUL

E : O Wos Aiicroft

1 SE re mr IX Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar O Probably Aircraft

- out27/1110Z to 114572 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |D Possibly Aircroft

5. PHOTOS . SOURCE of Wos Astronomicol Star/Plan t
3 O Yes D Probobly Astronomical

4 30 Yo ivilian ; D Possibly Astronomical

"| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BO OWeRs gd
o O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
id 3 O Unknown

* |%0 min 1 tationary

© [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS /

~ |Shaped like a star, round, no sound, ob] was Star/Planet sighting.

| |sighted for 40 min and gradually turned red.

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] ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964431

Connected across the archive

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

New YorkUticaUtica, NY

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19551955-12-01

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