White Plains, New YorkJune 1953

Unidentified

Summary

On June 28, 1953, at 8:23 p.m., a civilian airline pilot near White Plains, New York reported observing one circular, slightly elongated dark object. The object was approximately 5 inches in diameter, traveled at 245 miles per hour, and was sighted at about 2,500 feet altitude. The object was observed traveling northeast. The sighting was reported by the pilot of a Luscombe aircraft over White Plains, New York, heading toward Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The Air Force evaluated this sighting as unidentified and found insufficient data to determine the object's identity as of September 1953.

Reported location

White Plains, New York

Date of incident

June 1953

State / country

NY / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 18

Original case file scans

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1. DATE - TIME GROUP
28 JUNE 53 23/1422Z

2. LOCATION
White Plains, New York

3. SOURCE
Civilian Airline Pilot

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
Not Reported

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Air-Visual

7. COURSE
NE

8. PHOTOS
Yes
No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
Yes
No

10. CONCLUSION
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION. This case was not received at ATIC until Sep 53. Although the description is similar to a weather balloon within a light, there is insufficient supporting data to determine the identity of the object.

11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Circular (slightly elongated) dark object which appeared to be approx 5 ft in diameter [illegible] at an estimated 2500 mph (sic) or 2,500 ft in altitude. Object sighted by pilot of UC-23 Luscomb a/c at 1,500 ft.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28955217