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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 3. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  29 Aug 52 | Const of Oakland | 77 N, 75°15' W  |
|  4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual | ☐ Ground-Moder  |
|  ☐ Air-Visual | ☐ Air-Intercept- Moder |   |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes | ☐ No  |
|  6. SOURCE | 2 AF pilots |   |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 2-3 |   |
|  8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 3 | 9. COURSE  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | Disk shaped, white objects traveling from zero to extremely high speeds in a triangular formation were observed by 2 pilots of P4Y-2 a/c while on a cosmic balloon tra…

AF 110-53 (20 May 44)
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
UNCLASSIFIED
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET

|  TABLE NO. |   |
| --- | --- |
|  FILE NO. |   |
|  SUBJECT: | (Unclassified) Material for Project Blue Book  |
| --- | --- |
|  TO: | Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio  |
|  FROM: | Department of the Air Force Headquarters USAF - AFOIN  |
|  AUTH CS, USAF  |
| --- |
|  DATE 7 Jan 53  |
|  COMMENT NO. 1  |
|  Capt Smith/ac/75990  |
|  AFOIN-2A2  |

Inclosure is for your information, retention and appropriate action.

2 Incls.
1. Report 0028 to…

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
IN REPLY REFER TO
Op-322F2/wt
Ser 002870P32

From: Director, Naval Intelligence
To: Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force

Subj: FLYOBRPT, report on

Encl: (1) VP-23/Ag/fw ltr ser 873 dtd 31 Oct 1952 with enclosures attached thereto

1. Enclosure (1) is forwarded for information and whatever action is deemed necessary.

C. L. GILBERT
By direction

31 DEC 1952

CONFIDENTIAL
(illegible)
DECLASSIFIED
OPNAV
U.S. NAVY
BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL
NAVY 1952
APR 2051, Par 217a, 9 Jan 68

109426

UNCLASSIFIED
OP-32
UNCLASSIFIED AFR 2054, Par 2175, 2 Jan 68
OP-32/A9/fw
SERIAL:
UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET
AIR FORCE
PATROL SQUADRON TWENTY THREE

Naval Air Station
Brunswick, Maine
OCT 31 1952

From: Commanding Officer
To: Chief of Naval Operations (Op-32)
Subj: FLYOBRPT
Ref: (a) Office of Naval Research Dispatch 161455Z of September 1952
(b) Air Force Circular Letter 200-5

Encl: (1) Signed narrative statement by LTJG W.A. O'FLAHERTY, USN
(2) Signed narrative statement by LTJG R.S. MOORE, USN
(3) Flight track and sighting location on aeronautical chart
(4) Sketch of sighting

1. In accord…

VP-22/A9/fw
UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET
AIR FORCE
PATROL SQUADRON TWENTY THREE
SERIAL:
UNCLASSIFIED

(F) Undercast to 8500 feet with clear weather and unlimited
visibility above 8500 feet. Winds were from the southeast at approximately
25 knots.

(g) No known conditions which might account for the sighting.

(h) No physical evidence.

(i) Icebreaker called either during observation or shortly thereafter
and it was determined that only one object was intentionally
released from the balloon.

(j) There was no known air traffic in the general area at the time
of the sighting.

V.A. BLANDIN

CLAS…

UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET
AIR FORCE
PATROL SQUADRON TWENTY THREE

DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
By JH, NARS Date 6-27-74

SECRET

CONFIDENTIAL

DECLASSIFIED

SECRET

CONFIDENTIAL

On 29 August 1952, while on a cosmic balloon tracking flight, I observed the balloon at about 74,000 feet at about 1550Z. I was sitting in the pilot's seat on the port side of the cabin and was circling slightly to left on a heading of approximately 000T when the balloon released the parachute containing the instruments. The balloon at this time was to the north and slightly west of my locatio…

UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET
AIR FORCE
PATROL SQUADRON TWENTY THREE

SUBMARINE DIVISION
U.S. AIR FORCE
1943-1944

87 The Executive
211a
APR 30-1944 2:10
15a-68

CONFIDENTIAL

On 29 August 1952, at about 155#Z, while on a cosmic balloon tracking
flight as navigator I observed the following: Three white objects shaped
like spheres, about 1/2 the size of the balloon and in a triangular shaped
formation. I observed them through the astro-dome at an altitude of 10,000
feet with an 8500 foot undercast and clear and visibility unlimited above
that. We were in a P4Y-2 aircraft flying in a northerly di…

74,000
Cosmic Balloon
INSTAURENT GROUP

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

N

SKETCH OF SIGHTING

ENCLOSURE (4)