DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE8714551
DATE OF SIGHTINGJuly 1954
REPORTED LOCATIONConcord Center Mass
FRAMES3
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS as
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3 July 1954 Concord Center, Mass a) Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
2130 0 Was Aircraft
Local D Ground-Vi sual 0D Ground-Rodor Cl Probobly Aircroft
GMT 0,/0230Z D Air Vi sual 0 Air-Intercept Radar GO Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE @ Other_cearch Licht
O Insufficient Dota for Evaluction
20 Minutes 1 to several Random GO Unknown
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING j 11. COMMENTS -
lishts traveling at high speed in a circle, identified as searchliant
round edges. Whitish
oblong shape. Random motion, Lights stopped
and reversed course.
lights were observed. No Sound,
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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
color, circular to
On occassion one to thred
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) 5 CONCORD MASS, PHONE Qe }10 TELEPHONED THE FOLLOYING
D (FORMATION AT APPROXIMATELY 2433 TIME. A NEIc Do: 1 i.
<I, CONCORD i14SS, QM CALLED HER ATTENTION TO UNUSUAL
‘GHTS TRAVELING AT HIGH SPEED IN THE SKY DESCRIBED AS BEING CIRCULAR
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STIMATE AS TO SIZE OR SPEED EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE TRAVELING AT VERY HIGH
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SPEED APARENTLY IN A CIRCLE. WHEN SHE FIRST SAW THEM THEY WERE TRAVELING (
‘20M LEFT TO RIGHT, STOPPED AND MOVED FROM RIGHT TO LEFT. THEMNOST SEN
\T ANYONE TIME WAS THREE. ONE TIME ONE SEEMED TO BE ABOVE THE OTHER WITH
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AS THEY SEEMED TO GO DOWN BEHIND TREES WHICH OBSTRUCTED HER RANGE OF
, [SION. OBJECTS VISIBLE FOR A PERIOD OF ABOUT 29 MINUTES. SEEMED TO BE
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2435GE TIME SURFACE WINDS WESTERLY 20 TO 24 KNOTS, 22,925 FI SCATTERED
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