6 Mi W of Darrington, Wash., December 1957December 1957

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 6 Mi W of Darrington, Wash., December 1957 in December 1957. 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 31.

Reported location

6 Mi W of Darrington, Wash., December 1957

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

hn PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD SGT i |
| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12 CONCLUSIONS |
O Was Ball |
7 December 19357 6 Mi W of Darrington, Wash, |O Probably Balloon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0: Foseitay Belljon
oy 1 A a EN TAA XGround-Visual O Ground-Radar 8 Probably Airerafr
g cn708/00152 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was A ical
3 O Yes Probably Astronomical(2’ Apd 5)
; Bote : Civili O Possibly Astronomical |
8 | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE BOM aii EE
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation of
: 5 | 0 Unknown / f
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| 4 Round object, very bright white Astro plot and astro charts j
drifting to SW. | whow Venus to be SSW of observer |
§ & moving west, The duration |
; would tend to point to this
| planet as the object observed. ,
Venus is very bright this year,
i ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 32)
| | J
[ : ‘ - ¢
i NR RNS aR ES SA sb a we Co igs 1

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975895

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-12-01