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Case FileNARA NAID 28980952 · T1206 Roll 34

Project Blue Book Case File

Watertown, New YorkNovember 1958

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 Watertown, New York in November 1958. 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 34.

Reported location

Watertown, New York

Date of incident

November 1958

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
- . .
: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ;
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
2 November 1958 w¥atertown, New York 0D Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 1 TYPE OF OBSERVATION —| 0 Possibly Belloon
/ a 00 Was Aircraft
[Ley rg dest statisti, Musi sey ar Sin as ge a El .Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft :
GMT. 05/021 5% PARR 0 Air Visual 00 Air-Intercept Rodar 0D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | & soURCE $s Was Astronomical Meteor
: 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
; “13% No | tri Td an 0D Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF .OBSZRVATION { 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE HA i A 1A RG SNR
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluction
0 Unknown
Chinn iain iad RE SORE 3 EOC 2 o (0 3 vt 2 ~D + MOAN a I DC SSSI
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Plaming obj w/short tail flying straight
& level, faded fm sight, Prob: vy meteor sighthg,
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)
| is
4 AER A a DEE AB hie i pi )
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28980952

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