Project Blue Book Archive

Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB1-1064
Collection	NARA-Maxwell


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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 1
Document Code	N/A

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visible at night, aircraft can have appearances ranging
>             from disc to rocket in shape.   Single jet bombers
,         I              having multi-jet pods under their swept-back wings
have been reported as UFO''s or saucers in MV" for-    \
\              mat ion.    Vapor trails will often appear to glow Wtth fiery
red or orange streaks when reflecting sunlight.    After-
burners are frequently reported, as UFO''s.
ASTRONOMICAL:   This category includes bright stars, planets,  meteors,
I                          comets, and other qelestial bodies.    When observed
through haze, ligHt |fog, or moving clouds,  the planets
Venus,  Mars/ arid Jupitor have often N.-sn reported as
|     ^unconventional,  moving things.    Attempts to observe
astronomical bodies through hand-held binoculars under
adverse sky conditions haja been a source of many UFO
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 Reflections,  searchlights,  birds, kites,  blimps,  clouds,
sun-dogs,  spurious radar indications I hoaxes, firework
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displays,  flares, IfireballsJ  ice crystals,   bolides Jetc.   -
as examples:   JLarge Canadian geese flying low over a
city at night,  with street lights reflecting off their bodies;
searchlights playing on scattered cloudj, appearing
as moving disc-like shapes. .
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INSUFFICIENT DATA:   Sightings aje placed in thie category when essential or
1            I          pertinent items of information are missing, making it       ''    -
-impossible to form a valid conclusion.    These include
.   description of the size,  shape or color of the object; direction
and altitude; exact time and location; wind and weather
conditions; etc.    Example:   "observed an unusual object
,.''                  moving aft.nigh speed in the sky last ni^ht,   - signed J1 .
It should1 be emphasized that this category is not used a& a
convenient way to get rid of what might be referred to as .
(unknowns".                                             I
Where the report shows inconsistency in the data available,
or there is a doubt as to the observer11* reliability, no
/attempt is made,by the analyst to requestinaore data.    In
the* majority pi instances where additional data is re-
quest ea from the observer, the response is found to be
- inconsistent or at variance with the.original report.
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