PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6970162

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONGreat Neck Long Island N Y

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3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Lees! ___1600 EST

cur____.12/2100Z

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

2. LOCATION

reat Neck, Long Island,N.Y.
‘aa TYPE OF OBSERVATION

&X Bround- Vi suol
O Air Vi sual

5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE =—S

Sh Yes Kor Kec'p
XIX No
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

5 minutes
10. BRIG® SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

Civilian
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

one

Square, yellow object, size of bas-
ketball with tentacles coming out of
object. Was giving off smoke and a

humming sound, Was stationary, then

shot across sky, came back and waat
straight up,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 S£P 52)

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12, CONCLUSIONS

Wes Balloon

Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon —

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircroft
Possibly Aircraft

0 Ground-Radar

O Alr-Intercept Radar

es

Was Astronomical
Probobly Astronomical
Possibly Astronomicol

Other__

X Insufficient Dete for Evaluetion
Unknown

9 COURSE

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straight up
1). COMMENTS pa

Source gives no azimuth, bearings
or direction of object. Without
this data cannot condude. It was
snowing/any object can take on
weird appearance through snow,

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1. DESCRIPTIONS

A. [7]

BASKETBALL
YELLOW

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F. TENTACLES COMING OUT OF OBJE

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MANNER OF OBSERVATIONS

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