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This NICAP-hosted file reproduces USAF Project Blue Book records on a radar and fighter intercept near Bellefontaine, Ohio, on 1 August 1952. Ground radar near Wright-Patterson AFB tracked an object moving at 400 knots. Two F-86s from the 97th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron were sent to intercept it and filmed a silver round object, but the gun camera film was too indistinct. The file includes a completed radar data sheet, a request from the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and a memo about releasing film frames to TRUE magazine. Early analyses ruled out a balloon, but a later conclusion identified the object as an upper air research balloon cluster.
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## DISPOSITION FORM FILE NO. SUBJECT (Restricted) Project Blue Book, Our Camera Pils TO Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio FROM Dept of the Air Force Eq USAF - APOIN.2A DATE Maj Fournet/71016 SC 1. Returned herewith a gun camera file taken of an unidentified flying object by the 97th FI Squadron. 2. Prints were made of four frames by OSD-CPT and declassified by Security Review, OSD. It is understood that a print of the of these frames will be furnished TRUE magazine in answer to their request. 1 1ncl: . Roll 16mm file by WILLIAM A. ADAMS COLOREL, USAF Chief, Topical Division Deputy Director for Estimates Directorate of Intelligence, DCS/0 secret
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