Washington, D.C., September 1957September 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., September 1957 in September 1957. 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 29.

Reported location

Washington, D.C., September 1957

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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I. DATE ? 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Wos Bolloon
26 September 1957 Washington, D.C. 0 Probably Belloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION W TRRNIRY meen
OO Wes Aircraft
| _oMy_26212107 0 Air Visvol O Air-Intercopt Rodor |O Possibly Aircraft |
LJ OT0S ; ° . O Wes Astronomicol |
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
XCX Ne Civilian OD Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BI iio iadisssi
O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
O Unknown
five minutes one North |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
One long rectancular gray object the |Concur with rpting officer that |
size of a blimp. Object moved to the this sightingivas probably caused | i
north and was in sight for five min- by a blimp, : |
utes, |
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 352) ; |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971810

Connected across the archive

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Washington

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-09-01