PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6966715

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONGreat Neck New York

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Bolloon
2 December 1957 Great Neck, New York 00 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Locel_ Ground-Visual Ground-Rador Was Aircraft
000 Probably Aireroft
GMT_ 03/0300Z AirVisual Air-intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
S. PHOTOS SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicol
DYesI Not rec'd 00 Probably Astronomical
No Civilian Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS COURSE 0 Other_
KMnsuffieient Dot aluation
0 Unknown
5 minutes one N to S
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One object round, bigger than basket- Photos not received. Probably
ball, no vapor trail. Object had spines over imagination due to Sputnik
sticking out moved in circle wint publicity. No evaluation without
out of sight to North. photos. Insufficient Data.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 8ZP 52) ATIC FOrm 329 ( V 26 8EP 52)
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. DESCRIPTION: 1. DESCRIPTION:
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A. GROUND VISUAL
B. NONE
C.N/A
4.T TIME & DATE OF SIGHTING:
A. 03/0030Z
B. NIGHT
5 COUNTRY PLACE
GREAT NECK NEW YORK
5. IDENTIFYING INFO OF ALL OBSERVERS:
GREAT NECK AGE 15
7. WEATHER: C
A. CLEAR NNN WNW
B SURFACE 340 DEG 9 KT 20000 290 DEG 100 KT
WNw WNW W
6000 293 290 DEG 35 KT 30000 280 DEG DEG 95 KT
WHW WNW
10200 290 290 DEG 70 KT DEG 70 KT 52000 DEG 100 KT DEG 100 KT
CPPF 3 DEG 100 KT EPPF  DEG 1 100 KT 80000 80000 --- --- DEG -- KT
C. 5O00 SCATTERED C. 5000 SCATTERED
D. 2 MILES D. MILES
E. 1/8
F. NONE (
8. NONE
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