40 miles NE of Springfield, MissouriJune 1955

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 40 miles NE of Springfield, Missouri in June 1955. 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 23.

Reported location

40 miles NE of Springfield, Missouri

Date of incident

June 1955

State / country

MO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i Ty miles NE of 0 Was Balloon
15 June 1955 Springfield, Missouri 0 Probably Balloon |
BL So peas Jeane b eae cA desl) Possibly Balloon
3." DATETIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION |
TT RR ACRE shad Ca 0 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar B Bisel fiver |
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eMTL6/ Qpuan HR Cr Air- Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE D Was Astronomical
O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical _ y
7 No Civilian Pilot IX Possibly Astronomical jfeten:;
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Gh OPW idiom disaisn
0 hrelbthiabagd Data for Evaluation
5 2 a) nknown
Unk 1 DW :
i 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
¥hitish blue object. Possibly astronomical (Meteor)
Descending at high speed.
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28962397

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

40 miles NE of Springfield 40 miles NE of Springfield, MO Missouri

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-06-01