PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6968820

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONLa Madera New Mexico

FRAMES3

→ Original microfilm scan (PDF) → Return to index

Machine transcription · mean legibility 63.6/100 · engines: tesseract-200dpi

Transcribed Frames

FRAME 001 / 003tesseract-200dpi

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

**

1. DAT 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Was Balloon
©“6 December 1957 _|La Madera, New Mexico QO Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Q Possibly Balloon
O Wos Aircraft
Kucera nee ae BGround-Vi sual © Ground-Radar CQ Probably Aircroft
GMT 07/00112Z D Air Visual © Air-Intercept Redar | 2 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | 6 SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
AXe Civilian QO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9 COURSE 0D Other ett A ae ee so
side to side of paeciett Dote for Evaluation
nknown
still in sight one = edhe |
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

One object round, size of basketball, Due to lack of information diffi-
color white light. Object moved side tojcult to evaluate, Probably astro-
side 5 feet in either direction. nomical; however, information was

Binoculars used, of position at 45 dgr elevation in
South,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

Pee One| te | ee oe ee

FRAME 002 / 003tesseract-200dpi

- eas
De

Tey weet one

VM SQBe2¢ YODO24 WYEO 16 WDDDASDNADADNJ9B 4 {yet
RR RJEDDN RJEDSQ RJEPHQ

DE RUWFDN 1J 3

R 9700312 — | 2 X28
FM COMDR 687TH ACWRON WEST MESA AFS NMEX CE

TO RJEDDN/COMDR ADC
RJWFDN/COMDR 34TH ira OTe "i
RJEDSQ/COMDR ATIC ~ iu

RJEPHQ/DIRECTOR OF INT HQ USAF

BT
/UNCLAS/486 PD UFOB on itl
Wo, oF OB Jecrs ¢
i Abe fouw ce) SASKETPELL OF XNOLM PRIGHT CMM WHITE LIGHT ¢/
GSE Ls
ITEMS -(EFGH) NEGATIVE-(1). REMAINING IN. SAME. LOCATION — = Wily =

2. (A) SON CALLED ATTENTION TO IT CMM WAS PLAYING OUTSIDE (BBL RT,

P)
DEGREES SOUTH OF OBSERVER (C) (NEGATIVE) (D) SIDE TO SIDE CMM 5 FT_IN
EITHER DIRECTION (E) NEGATIVEC(F) STILL IN SIGHT AT TIME OF

ee

REPOR | a few love WAS

Cb) tv p47 ©
3. ¢A) GROUND VISSAL (BBLV (BINOCULARS) (C) NEGATIVE
4. €A) DEC 7.57 TIME go4iz (BYDUSK) 9 °//— 7 =/7//
5. PG 5922 OBSERVER PF 5959 OBJECT (ESTIMATED)

’ 2 Z toh leh
raf see Doel tor ze ;
4 emi Leonel a any /

&
/

ee | ey ee ee ee

——

‘

‘
a

FRAME 003 / 003POOR LEGIBILITY — PENDING RE-EXAMINATION

PAGE TWO RJWFDN iJ

c. (A) Senate: aman ;

(B) NEGATIVE >

- ee e+ _ —

P
7. CA) FEW CLOUDS CMM WINDS CALM (B) NEGATIVE (C) NEGATIVE r:
(D) LIMITED BECAUSE OF DUSK CMM OBJECT CLEARLY IN SIGHT
eel a Ff ere ee
CE)CSCATTEREDAF) NEGATIVE (Dae me J pp ieee, 3
8. NEGATIVE Pe ae re,
9, NEGATIVE y ee i + J be eae We ye gens
“i at it pe ga Pe sg, nant nie
= NEGATIVE Be! a 4s air re | (= f= } pre A? eet F
hie PROBABLY BALLOON BALLOON _~ oy A CU ae APPLE Jvia Abe rite oe
12. NEGATIVE [Demi Co Lepeees BR
13. OBJECT STILLIN SIGHT LA ry.
BT | ¢ f - ¥ <2 Tw LI

ae a f

ff os fo
@9/23052 DEC RJWFDN i,

/