Washington D.C., September 1954September 1954

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., September 1954 in September 1954. 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 21.

Reported location

Washington D.C., September 1954

Date of incident

September 1954

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

Tt
ERS PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
i i: \ DATE ? 2. LOCATION ; ; 12. CONCLUSIONS
: j : 7: O Was Balloon
BE 6 September 195% Washington D.C. 0 Probably Balloon
| 3 DATETIME GROUP ps 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION _ : REAL LR GE
iE \ : 0 Was Aircraft : >
E [17 SA en CTR ANY B Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar O Probably Aircraft
i GMT 00/2330 a 0 Air Visual . 0 Air-Intercept Radar o Possibly Aircraft
. . |3 PHOTOS : 8. SOURCE ] 2X Was Astronomical METEOR -
BE § O Yes O Probably Astronomical
: eh : Xx No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
© I? LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Bi Other temas aba ihe, Lp
Ec : 2 : 0 dnsufficient Data for Evaluation
; « Fr 4 = 5 Seconds 1 0 Unknown
j 0. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING i COMMENTS EEE
¢ -..-1 Round, long, silver with flame and smoke | METEOR SIGHTIIG.
| trailing for distance of £ miles, Turned
and disapps:red at 5000 ft, Flight through
 . £0-50 deg 2rc. Twoer operator sighted vppor
3 trail at approx same tims, Sighting at i
fo Si Besar Oe Si eR Dee I
© ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
! LJ ;
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28959496

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1954 1954-09-01