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Case FileNARA NAID 28964244 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Washingtonville, New YorkNovember 1955

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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 Washingtonville, New York in November 1955. 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 24.

Reported location

Washingtonville, New York

Date of incident

November 1955

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
Ea PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : .
1 1. DATE : 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS j

i . Washingtonville, New York dn

4 . as Balloon

~ |21 Nov 55 . Brooklyn, New York D Probably Balloon

*  |'3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Ey RC Eo oo

2 Tee —— ¥ Ground- Visual D Ground-Radar B Probably Aircraft

Ek GM 1/ 25 0 Air VYisval O Air-Intercept Rodar 0 Possibly Aircraft

i '| 5. PHOTOS ! 8. SOURCE ¥ Was Astronomical Meteor

3 O Yes 1. civilian OD Probably Astronomical

i B No 2. eivilian (2 a/c mechanics) D Possibly Astronomical

7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other ___
15 54a second 1. Overhead a jgutti cians Dota for Evaluation
|. |2. a)8-10 seconds b)l second one Hb Se
"10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

. | 1. One wedge shaped obj, bluish green incolor, ASTRO (Meteor)

| | seen overhead for period of one second.

© |2. Round obj of flash of light, about size of

| |orange, white, seen at dusk. a) Long trail of

| |light. b) No treil sound of Jet winding up,

| roar could have been truck. Hdpe=d very fast,

~ |obJ seemed to spin. :

4 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) Ra

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964244

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

New YorkWashingtonvilleWashingtonville, NY

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19551955-11-01

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