THE ZENODOTUS PROJECT: Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), June 1947

Record Group 341: Records of Headquarters

U.S. Air force (Air Staff)

Series:

Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), June 1947-December 1969

NAID: 595466

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Collected: June 1947-December 1969

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The creator compiled or maintained the parent series, Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), between June 1947-December 1969.

This file unit documents the time period of July 1, 1952-July 28, 1952.

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File Unit: Washington DC Area, 7-3712-41

Saucers Over Washington, DC

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ID#: 595553

Memorandum Relating to a Trip to Washington, D.C. by Project Blue Book Personnel

Level: Item ID#: 596293

ITEM:
SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, DC

File Unit:

Washington DC Area, 7-3712-41

Item:

Saucers Over Washington, DC

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Covers: 7/19/1952-7/19/1952

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This comic strip relates to a July 19, 1952, series of multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) over Washington, DC.

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Parent series: Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

This item documents the time period of 7/19/1952-7/19/1952.

Control Number: 09204*

*NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit.

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Al Feldstein

December 1954

ec comics

Flying Saucer Report

Jim Wroten

Marie Severin

Project Blue Book

Reed Crandall

Weird Science-Fantasy

William M. Gaines

WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY VOL. 1 NO. 26, PG. 25-26 (DECEMBER 1954)

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SOURCE: GRAND COMICS DATABASE

Grand Comics Database
Weird Science-Fantasy #26

EC, 1954
Volume: 1 Price: 0.10 USD Pages: 36 Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc. Brand: EC An Entertaining Comic
Editing: Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein) (editor); Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor)

Issue Notes:
Special Flying Saucer Report issue. All incidents based on true stories.

Saucers Over Washington, D.C.
comic story / 2 pages
Script: Al Feldstein
Pencils: Reed Crandall
Inks: Reed Crandall
Colors: Marie Severin
Letters: Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text:
Harry G. Barnes, senoir air traffic controller...
Genre: non-fiction; science fiction
Reprints:
• in Weird Science-Fantasy (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in Weird Science-Fantasy (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (August 1993)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #34 - The Planetoid (July 2023) [Reprinted in black and white.]

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Title: The Planetoid and Other Stories

Illustrator: Joe Orlando

Other Illustrators: Reed Crandall, George Evans, Wallace Wood

Writer: Al Fedstein, William M. Gaines

Foreword: Paul Levitz

Other Writers: Thommy Burns, S.C. Ringgenberg, Ted White

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Publication Date: 2023

E.C.'s "The Flying Saucer Report" is included in its entirety including original commercials on pg. 155-190. The item record SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON DC/"Saucers Over Washington, D.C." is reprinted on pg. 181-182 (Fantagraphics: June 2023).

"SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C"
PG. 181

"SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C."
PG. 182

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Types of Media: Paper Container Id: Box 26

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Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Air Force Systems Command. Foreign Technology Division. Project Blue Book Office. (7/1/1961 - 12/17/1969) (Predecessor) Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Air Materiel Command. Intelligence Department. Technical Intelligence Division. (1947 - 1951)

Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations. Office of the Director of Intelligence. Air Technical Intelligence Center. (5/21/1951 - 7/1/1957)

Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted

Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted

ITEM:
MEMORANDUM RELATING TO A TRIP TO WASHINGTON, D.C. BY
PROJECT BLUE BOOK PERSONNEL

File Unit:

Washington DC Area, 7-3712-41

Item:

Memorandum Relating to a Trip to Washington, D.C. by

Project Blue Book Personnel

[ID#: 596293] LINK here

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Produced: July 26, 1952

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This is a memorandum for the record concerning a trip by Project Blue Book personnel to Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Headquarters, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, to discuss MATS Air Weather Service and Flight Service personnel assistance with Blue Book investigations.

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Parent Series: Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

This item documents the time period of 7/26/1952-7/26/1952.

Other identifier: 09257*

*This is the NARA Internal Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit.

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