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Case FileNARA NAID 28975434 · T1206 Roll 31

Project Blue Book Case File

17 Mi S of Minot, North DakotaNovember 1957

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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 17 Mi S of Minot, North Dakota in November 1957. 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 31.

Reported location

17 Mi S of Minot, North Dakota

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

ND / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
\
; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD \
Sebi A bf IG St Jd Be A la a I A SN CH SE CT 8 CE NE SI LS CH SHAT |
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS \
4% SOLAR ; O Wos Bolloon
30 November 19957 17 Mi 8 of Minol, Horth DalkolD. Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bolloan \
\
o Vi % E 0 Was Aircraft \
layer fg Se Rl ne VR De SR] Ground- Visual a Ground-Rodar 0 Probably Aircraft \
70 J i Wey NN) 7 2 ° \
GMT a / 19202 O Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft \
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronemicol
OYes O Probably Astronomical
XD No Military DO Pos=ibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF O3SERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0; Other icxssn faian bapdot
DO Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
ral X 0 Unknown :
: SY SeCconas On
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Visual one inch blip on HRI, climbed It 1s concluded that possibility
from 9,000 ft to 25,000 ft in 20 sec object is a false target due to
onds, Traveled 100 miles in 20 seconds | equipment malfunction rather than
when it faded from HRI. an actual target caused the rptd
radar paint,
ATIC FORM 329 (RPV 26 SEP 52)
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