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Case FileNARA NAID 28968762 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

A/V Over Russell, KansasJanuary 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 A/V Over Russell, Kansas in January 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 27.

Reported location

A/V Over Russell, Kansas

Date of incident

January 1957

State / country

KS / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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by 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS !
i 0 Was Balloon |
1 1 January 1957 a/v _over Russell, Kansas o ALL Ballon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION REAR RAEN.
4 : o 0 Was Aircraft
1 cea) ee 0 Ground-Visuol 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
1 emt 01/21007 Jan 57 20Q7Air- Visual DO Alr-Intercopt Radar | © Possibly Aircraft
E 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE TF Was Astronomical ME tEOT
3 QO VYes 0 Probably Astronomical ;
i 2HNo Civilian 00 Possibly Astronomical
i SS A A Ue AA SS SA FE SPR G Sn St SSR SS SASS SS SS eemm_ma ey
I 7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [io [ted (0 1 31 rb Lr EC DP
i BD Insufficient Data for Evaluation
A 0 Unknown
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3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: One gound blue-white object, the size Description, duration, flight
4 of a pea at arm's length, Object moved path, and manner of disappear-
h' from East to West and disappeared fm ance indicate that this sight-
s sight at a high rate of speed, after ing was caused by a meteor,
i having been seen air-visually for a
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28968762

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