20 Mi S of Quart Site, Ariz., August 1956August 1956

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Summary

The OCR text from pages 4 through 7 is too heavily garbled to support reliable reconstruction of the investigative details. While page 1 provides basic case metadata and pages 2 and 3 contain some legible headers and routing information, the substance of the investigation, witness interviews, analysis, findings, and conclusions, appears across pages that are substantially corrupted in transcription.

On August 1956, an unidentified object was sighted approximately 20 miles south of Quartsite, Arizona. According to the initial case card, the sighting involved a light described as roughly the size of a dime to a quarter, bluish white in color. The Air Force evaluated the case as unknown. However, the declassified file materials provided do not contain sufficient legible text to reconstruct the witness accounts, investigative methods, or reasoning behind the final determination. The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives across 7 pages.

Reported location

20 Mi S of Quart Site, Ariz., August 1956

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

? / XX

Page count

7 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 7

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- REE TMELT Ie TOT PORTRAIT La aE ——
ERG PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i Begs as A } 3 Was Belioon
8 Auzust 1956 20 Mi S of Quart Site, Ariz. |0 Probably Balloon
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 2 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Pasaibly Balloon
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Local _ 2500 BGround- Vi sual 3 Ground-Redar n nas eats
GMT 19. 6 007 RATA 0 Air Visual D Air-lniercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft { |
Ss. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astionomical
: 0 Yes £3 Probably Astronomical
(& 0 No civilians tai of Ei Ang IED |
{ 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3. NUMBER OF 03JECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Biher. UNADBNA LL LH
Ni palo we RT RB ‘no in sufficiant Dota for Evaluction
{ elm i 7 pid PLE K a Unknown i
1 2 ocbsen 3 2oto 0 38 C ong nord BE FL AE fart |
No. BRIZF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS |
| neo t-light, size of dime to INIDENT1IF] 1
quarter lor bluish white, 0b3 C1
0 1 abo FRI Roger. 8 ed Chj=ct 0d
noc { 3 3LOYT, & 1 OY SPBU.
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ATIC FORM 323 (REV 25 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28966741