20 Mi NE Of Hill City, KansasNovember 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 20 Mi NE Of Hill City, Kansas in November 1957. 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 30.

Reported location

20 Mi NE Of Hill City, Kansas

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

KS / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

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I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS | |
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1: November 1937 20 Mi NE of Hill City, KonsagO Probobly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 3 Pessitiy Beliewn |
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ET GT SRR 00 Ground-Visua! 0 Ground-Radar 1 Probably Aircraft
GMT Li 233.42 Ha AL Air Visuol 0 Air-lntercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 13°C Was Astronomical Vis
O Yes 00 Probebly Astronomical
3H No Military 00 Possibly Astronomical A
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CR ROE DR TR PIAY
00 insufficient Dato for Evaluaiion
Co EN 5 GR Fein] 9 : 1 Unknown
8-2 minutes one rising
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Object shape of foot ball with rounder Venus was observed to be quite
ends, Size of pea. Metallic silver grey, bright by ground observers at
becoming brighter during movement, Had Dyess AFB. The position of the |
a brighter ring around the oval run- observer's a/c in relation to
ning horizontally across it, but not the planet Venus could have
: extending beyond the edges of the oval caused the sighting,
The ring similar to that around the
planet saturn, Object was stationary
for about 4 minutes, then appeared to
follow another B--47 remaining station-
ary over the B-47 for about 1 minute,
Then rose vertically until CARER AAT ost
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28974810