PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6969952

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONMiles Coty Montana

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SOVEMSRU
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
. DATE | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
11 December 1957 IMiles Coty, Montana 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Local_ x Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft
XProbably Aircraft
GMT 11/1540Z AlrVisual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical
Y.s 000 Probably Astronomical
XRNo Civilian Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION . NUMBER OF OBJECTS COURSE Other.
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown
3 minutes one North
10. BRIEF SUMMARY HTING 11. COMMENTS
Object resembled a star, size of Probably a high speed a/c
dime, white brilliant. Estimated speed flying at a high altitude.
of l0oo MPH. No apparent altitude
change. Decreased in size with a Smooth
shifting from side to side until it
disappeared. disappeared.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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/Wituers 227
20Dec37 23
4%C
DSQD939 YDA022 XYD029 XDF012GUA008 HE4
PP RJEDDN RJEDWP RJEPHQ
DE RJWPGU 1J 4-4x2a
P 1923302 0
FM COMDR 902D AC&W SQD
TO RJWPGU/COMDR 29TH ADIV DEF
RJEDDN/COMDR ADC ENT AFB
RJEDWP/COMDR AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
RJEPHQ/JIRECTOR USAF
BT. C C
(1A) RESEMBLED A STAR ((B) DIME(C) BRIL- RESEMBLED A STAR((B)DIME(C) BRIL-
LAINT STAR COLOR, BUT MORE WHITE () E()(F)OE(G)NONE
(H) NONE (I) OBJECT APPEAREDAS BRIGHT AS VENUS THOUGH SIGHTING WAS (H) NONE (I) OBJECT APPEARED(AS BRIGHT AS VENUS THOUGH SIGHTING WAS —
IN FULL DAYLIGHT IN FULL DAYLIGHT (2A) PRESENSE OF A BRIGHT OBJECT IN THE SKY. (2A) PRESENSE OF A BRIGHT OBJECT IN THE SKY.
FROM TRUE NORTH. (C)FORTY DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON, THREE HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY DEGREES TRUE NORTH TO THREE E HUNDRED AND TEN DEGREES TRUE
NORTH AT AN ESTIMATED SPEED OF ONE THOUSAND MPH, NO APPARENT ALTI-
TUDE CHANGE. (E) IT DECREASED IN SIZE WITH A SMOOTH SHIFTING G FROM
.
the object, was probably a high sped acft
Prob AC
Nore
iT ProbAbly JusT SeeMed To

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- CLOUDS,
(B) SURFACE WINDS SSE 19KTS, 6,000 ENE DEGREES -18 10,200 NNE
3001 340 DEGREES
-30, 1 16,200 340 NNE DEGREES -55, 20,000 N.
350
-75, 50, 000 350 DEGREES -75. i
(E) UNK (F)NONE. (8) NEGATIVE (9) NONE (10)) NEGATIVE (11) INTELL-
IGENCE OFFICER: OBSERVER IS A EX-NAVAL AVIATOR WITH 2,DOO HRS LOGGED IGENCE OFFICER: OBSERVER IS A EX-NAVAL AVIATOR WITH 2,000 HRS LOGGED
DURING WW II. THIS REPORT IS BEING SUBMITTED LATE BECAUSE THE INFOR-
MATIONWAS NOT MADE AVAILABLE TO THIS STATION UNTIL LATE ON THE 18TH
OF DECEMBER 1957. (12)NONE. C
BT (
20/0005Z DEC RJWPGU 20/0005Z DEC RJWPGU
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