Washington, D.C., April 1957April 1957

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 Washington, D.C., April 1957 in April 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 27.

Reported location

Washington, D.C., April 1957

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

N ¢ 1
eA PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
— a te eee i tt eat A 0 SB, lA BR A, EA er. on A Mt, BAT 1. + el | AM Bn © + OB il, PAA i Ge, be A re 0 ern i et er i
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
OO Wos Balloon |
6 April 1957 Washington, D.C. 0 Probobly Bollioon
REE ET ET ETE Th UE ERE Reet aN iE) Pe ssibly-Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE GF OBSERVATION
-. Z 0 Wos Aircraft
docslv eto Ee B-"Ground- Visual O Ground-Rador O Probably Aircraft
; CMT 07/00477 0 Air-Visual O Air-Intercep? Radar DO Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE £2 Was Astronomicol Meteor
p 0 Yes OD Probably Astronomical
; J5'Ne Civ 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8B. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE i 1 eG TE
S turn IE turn |B Insufficient Data for Evaluation
a PH ? f 7 0 Unknown
four to five sec two North,
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: Two objects circular, 1/3 size of dime Objects present appearing like
: color dull pink, objects in trail meteors. Total sighting 4-5 i
g sound a boom like distant thunder afte» seconds consistent with this 3
i objects went out of sight. analysis. Appearance of going
y away from observer then toward
observer was optical illusion.
; Meteor entered fm below plane
1 of ecliptic and was overtaking.
i ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)
G

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969463

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Washington

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-04-01