DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE6783121
DATE OF SIGHTINGNovember 1957
REPORTED LOCATIONBiloxi Mississippi
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1. DATE
2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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i4 November 1957 Biloxi, Mississippi GO Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GO Pessibly Balloon
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Local : nr ie ignealy +e es O Ground-Reder Q Probably Aircroft
GMT I/OLOOZ | AMEVGst okie 0 Air-Intercept Rador OD Possibly Aircroft
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Round object, 3 times the size of a Astro chart snows Venus to be
star. Brighter than a/c landing at the exact location given at
lights, The object was round at first,] the time of the sighting.
then changed shape until it was flat
on top. Much brighter than anything
ever seen by the observers,
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19. ONE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITHIN A MILE OF THE OBSEEVERS
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11. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT INVESTIGATOR CHIEF BASE TRAINING
BRANCHse THE OBSERVERS WERE QUIRED AND WERE STUND TO BE SINCERE AND
RELIABLE. THE OBJECT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN A BRIGHT STAR
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AIR FORCE REGULATION 299-2
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HEADQUARTERS
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PLEAGE ADDRESS GOTH UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
REPLY ANO ENVELOPE TO: KESSLER AIR FORCE BAGE, MISSISSIPPI
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TO: Commander
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: Colorado Springs, Colorado
1. Inclosed are the photographs and sketches referenced in
our message, O5532L, 15 November 1957. An explanation of cach
follows
a. iInclosura £1; photograph and negative: Two exposures
were taken of the object by the witness 30 seconds apart without
moving the camera. Object is indicsted by arrow.
be Inclosure #23; photograph and negative: This is a
Six-ninute time exposure of the object taken by witness. Object
is indicated by arrow 71. Reflection of object on water is also
shown (by arrow #2). Light scratches around object track and ster
track were caused by pon marks on negative.
c. Inclosure £3; sketch: Shows the object as being round.
The area shown as “light circle” was not as bright as the object,
and tanered in the direction shown, (All sketches were produced
by another witness who was the mother of the witness who vhotozraphed
the object.)
d. Inclosure #4; sketchs Shows the object starting to
chanze shape (as evidenced by the "light cirele" drawn sround it).
e. Inclosure 75; sketchs Shows the object still round
and the "light circle" similar to sketch #1.
f, Inclosurs 75; sketch: Shows the roun? object with a flat
ton with the "light circle" having changed its position to the botton
g. Inclosure #7; drawing: This is the artist's conception
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for the sky.
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osition. Colors used to indicate the object were silver
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Subj: Unidentified Plying Object |
2. No other revorts on this object were racaived at this
headquarters. A New Orleans, Louisiana, newspaner carried a smal]
colium about a bright object sighted in this general area and tdeantified
it as the planet Venus. This investigator also feels that this is
a plausible explanation of the sishting reported uoon.
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TOs Commander, Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIN: AFCIN 1),
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UFOB Report
Maj R. Me Buckmaster/11
Ext. 5-9196/Bldg 263/EN
Lack of data in this report prevents any photo analysis except that prints
were made from negatives that are present and that the streak and dats on nega-
_ tive are actual exposures. These exposures could have been made in many ways;
_ therefore, there is no way to positively prove anything except that there are
eure ys
ROBERT M,; BUCKMASTER
Major, USAF
AFCIN-4.A2?
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