DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE6966317
DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957
REPORTED LOCATIONMount Olive North Carolina
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
1 December 1957 Mount Olive, North Carolina 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Passibly Balloon
Locel Ground-Vi sual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
00 Probably Aircroft
GMT_02/0125Z Air-Visual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE Ix
Yes Probably Astronomical
D'No Civilian D Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other.
000 Insufficiont aluation
5 minutes one SW Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One object, round, 2 feet in diameter, All characteristics of object
color red. oject sighted moving in reported is of the planet Venus
SW sky in straight path. and at time of sighting Venus was
about to set below horizon.
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