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Case FileNARA NAID 28968592 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 1956December 1956

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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., December 1956 in December 1956. 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., December 1956

Date of incident

December 1956

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
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TR PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD SEE he |
J 1. DATE 2. LOCATION = 12. CONCLUSIONS
| NAH S tte nly 7045 0 Wos Balloon |
: i 10 Decemb34 1956 edits D.C. 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION XX Possibly Balloon |
(Ip | Fed Bt EER XX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar = LE Gin
: GMT 11/02352Z ; 0 Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
] 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE D Was Astronomical |
; 0 Yes 0 Fobaiy Astiandu dal
2 Civilia D Possibly Astronomica |
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BO Other amiiad es
k : 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
0 Unknown
1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS :
| One object oval but flat, larger Sighting described characteris-
4 than a basketball, color white tic of WX balloon,
turning orange. Observer glanced up
: and saw obj for about 15 minutes.
Object disappeared when observer
made call to report sighting. At
: least four a/c in area over Bolling :
| 1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
i | -/
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