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Case FileNARA NAID 28964609 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

10 Mi S of Stroud, OklahomaJanuary 1956

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 10 Mi S of Stroud, Oklahoma in January 1956. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 24.

Reported location

10 Mi S of Stroud, Oklahoma

Date of incident

January 1956

State / country

OK / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
vi £ Tb PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD &i |
: ‘1. DATE : ‘2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS : f
A O Was Balloon |
: 19 January 1956 10 Mi S of Stroud, Oklahoma|O Sfobafllyib alleen
- Ia. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION HE Ee |
Real 0 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar : 3 Probably Averaft ; aia
omT_19/16517Z ‘XXKAir Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft !
: 3. PHOTOS | SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
D Yes A XXProbably Astranomical !
io Military ( F84F Pi lot) Si O Possibly Astromomical |
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE a i oS AR Ce
. ‘ | 2 1eustiot on Data for Evaluation
. no
p three to five seconds four easterly : i
. j10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS {
“| One large round object, the size of | Concur with the opinion of the
- | a bushel basket held at arms length, | reporting officer that this
with three smaller objects, third sighting was probably generated
the size of the large object, and by a meteor even tho the sight-
~.| composing the trail of the large obj4 ing was in the daylight. The
Fs Seen for a period of three to five color, duration, trail and generdl |
5 seconds, The larger obj was a bril- circumstances of the sighting ledd |
~~] liamt emerald green in color in the | to the above conclusion.
~~ {center with a lighter shade of green
. lon the auLH199. 50° smaller objects
.- | were white or silver in color,
. | Daylight sighting.
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 32)
. | :
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