[BLANK] radar-visual unidentified-object report — January 1953

The entire collection is free to download and online at: http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com CAPTAIN PIPPETT ADC BRIEFING RETURN TO USAF Historical Archives ASASASHAF-A) Maxwell AFB, Ala 36112 7-3745 586 1003838 RESTRICTED means that we were not able to correlate all the data, but there is no doubt in our minds but what the reported object was a balloon. Again, this does not mean that just because a person is alone, sees something he cannot explain to himself and reports it, his account of what he saw is laughed off. With the world situation what it is and with the present advance in science, it behooves the Air Force to have a system whereby RESTRICTED UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTED they can receive reports of, evaluate, and determine the identity of objects reportedly flying over the United States. Due to the fact that the term "flying saucer" has become almost a household word for anything that cannot be identified as a conventional object, it might be reported as a flying saucer. It states that the Air Technical Intelligence Center is responsible for analyzing all reports of unidentified flying objects and that each Air Force unit is responsible for forwarding reports that they receive to the Air Technical Intelligence Center. He may be able to identify the object, if he does, it is no longer an unidentified flying object, and therefore, does not have to be forwarded. Very probably some of you have forwarded reports of unidentified flying objects to ATIC and have wondered what happened to them. RESTRICTED UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTED Objects don't forward is as an unidentified flying objects. This only goes up channel and at times has approached being serious. An airline pilot may see a vapor trail that to a housewife is a flying saucer, possibly enhanced by the fact that she just read "Amazing Stories". Fortunately, many of these balloons are tracked, either by radar or by radio DF and it is possible to get the exact tracks of the balloons. Nearly every airbase and civilian airport serving a scheduled airline releases some type of weather balloons, either the small pitfall that is tracked visually or the instrument-carrying type that is tracked by radio or radar. Supporting case details: Reported craft or object: Disc / Saucer Physical traces or material: Radar data or reported radar return associated with [BLANK] radar-visual unidentified-object report — January 1953 Electromagnetic or instrument effects: Radar or sensor detection Institutional response / aftermath: Government or official action