Wheelus AFB, Libya, September 1957
- Date of account
- 1957-09
- Location
- Wheelus AFB, Libya
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
Read the available text below. Archive transcriptions may contain OCR errors; later context is labelled separately. A recorded claim is not a finding that it happened.
Source page 1
Source text · mention onlyPROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS WasBalloon 10 September 1957 Wheelus AFB,Libya 口 ProbablyBalloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOFOBSERVATION Local. XCGround-Visual Ground-Rodar DxWas Aireraft 口 Probably Aireroft 10/1830Z DAirVisuol Air-Intercept Radar 口 PossiblyAircraft GMT 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomicol OiYes 口 ProbablyAstronomical XONo Military 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBEROF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluotion 口 Unknowm 3-4 minutes one NE 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11. COMMENTS Spherical object,size of pea,yellowis Nothing indicates that this was orange.Observer first thought object not normal a/c.Flight & dura- was s shooting star but changed his tion consistent with this analy- mind because of the erratic path. Obj sis. did not alter size during flight. ATICFORM329(REV 26SEP52)
View this source page ↗Investigate related details with Anomaly Graph’s account-based search, or read how matching and provenance work.