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Case FileNARA NAID 28985012 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

18 Mi NNE Terre Haute, IndianaOctober 1959

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 18 Mi NNE Terre Haute, Indiana in October 1959. The full case file (5 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 37.

Reported location

18 Mi NNE Terre Haute, Indiana

Date of incident

October 1959

State / country

IN / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
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1 13 Oct 59 | 18 mi NNE Terre Haute, Indiana |O Prosebly Hol bed

1 3. DATE-TIME GROUP E TYPE OF OBSERVATION hdioint Adibanacd

1 Local po TE C Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar : Hesholy Avera?

3 GMT 14/ 0015% or 14 01572 (2) XRkin Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aireroft

E 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE LX Wes Astronomical Meteor

i C Yes C Probably Astronomical

1 sBcNo : M O Possibly Astronomical

1 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | & NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE TART BY 30 § Hs a CR CS NN
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| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28985012

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