PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6967683

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONBaffin Island Canada

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE

2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
GK Was Bolloon

3-4

December 1957 Baffin Island, Canada GO Probebly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION G Pessibly Belleon |
: y O Wos Aircraft
Lecel XQ Ground- Vi suel O Ground-Roder o Probably Airereft
ont__03-94/2100 dusk 0 Air Vi suol D Alr-intercept Rader | Possibly Aircroft
$. PHOTOS » $0U 2 Was Astronomical
0 Yea a Probeobly Astronomicel
O Ne Military O Possibly Astronomicel
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9 COURSE O Other
© Inaufficient Date for Eveluction
O Unknown
45 minutes
10, BRIG SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One object, round, size of dime, color] Re Msg CONADCC 0529 WX people
orange and yellow on top and red at state WX Balloons released
bottom. Cloud layer, also sighting daily from Egedesminde Danish
on previous day, WX On west coast Greenland,

also state winds on 3 and 4
December would have brought
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