3 Mi NE of White Rock Lake, Dallas, TexasMarch 1959

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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 3 Mi NE of White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas in March 1959. The full case file (6 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 35.

Reported location

3 Mi NE of White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas

Date of incident

March 1959

State / country

TX / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 35

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-TiMEZ GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION ——|0 Possibly Balloon
Ba : 0 Was Aircraft
Local DER 0: Ground-Vi sual 0 Ground-Redar AQ. Probably Aircraft
CMT L / 238557 0 Air Visuol 0 Air-Intercept Rador 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 8. SGURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CE RAR a —
0 Insufficient Dotto for Evaluation
0 Unknown
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28982380

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Places

3 Mi NE of White Rock Lake, Dallas, TX Texas

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1959 1959-03-01