PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6972091

DATE OF SIGHTINGOctober 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONVineyard Haven Mass

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UFOB INDEX CARD
AISS-UFOB-331-57
1. DATE LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
24-00t 57 Vineyard Haven, Mass. - Was Balloon
12067 57 o Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION D Possibly Balloon
12/2025% Oct 57 Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar Was Aircraft
000 Probably Aircraft
AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS SOURCE Was Astronomical
Yes Civilian 000 Probably Astronomical
No PossiblyAstronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS . COURSE Other.
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Two mimutes Ong Hovered Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING TO. BRIEP SOMM, 11. COMMENTS
One sphere One shhere opaque opaque object approximately object approximately Lescription, Lescription, duration, flight path duration. flight path
five feet in diameter five feet in diat Otject wa Object wa seen hoveringindicate that this sighting was possibly seen hoveringindicate that this sighting was possibly
for approxi_ately 90 seconde thendeparting for approxi_ately 9 seconde thendeparting caused by a balloon. caused by a balloon.
rapidly. Object was eeen Object was visually for 2 min.
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