PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7340481

DATE OF SIGHTINGFebruary 1956

REPORTED LOCATIONGeorgetown Massachusetts

FRAMES8

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
8 February 1956 Georgetown, Massachusetts 100 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Local day Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
0 D Probably Aircraft robabiy Aircrat
GMT. GMT. AinVisual Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astranomical
Ys 0 Prabably Astronamical
XXNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical Possibly Astroromical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other Unreliable Rpt Unreliable Rpt
00 Insufficient Data for Evaluatian
Unknown Unknown
not reported multiple not reported a
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS 11. COMMENTS
Group of saucers observed in north Avid reader of Keyhoe and Frank Avid reader Keyhoe and Frank
on clear Sunlit day. Half hour later sunlit day. Half hour later Scully. Obvious psychological
saw two more, only closer. Letter to motives in reporting objects. No motives eporting objects. No
J. Edgar Hoover about bhe possibility possibility information other than that the
of the saucers being Russian. witness has observed flying
saucers. Unreliable.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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GROUP 4
Downgraded at 3 year
intervals; declassified
after 12 years
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