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Case FileNARA NAID 28981232 · T1206 Roll 34

Project Blue Book Case File

Alaska, December 1958December 1958

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 Alaska, December 1958 in December 1958. The full case file (2 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 34.

Reported location

Alaska, December 1958

Date of incident

December 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2
Transcribed text
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
2 December 1958

2. LOCATION
Alaska
Wildwood (Army) Station

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
03/0115Z
GMT

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
[X] Ground-Visual
[ ] Ground-Radar
[ ] Air-Visual
[ ] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS
[ ] Yes
[ ] No

6. SOURCE
Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
30 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
S/W to N/E

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Smoke trail, four miles in length.

12. CONCLUSIONS
[ ] Was Balloon
[ ] Probably Balloon
[ ] Possibly Balloon
[ ] Was Aircraft
[ ] Probably Aircraft
[ ] Possibly Aircraft
[ ] Was Astronomical
[ ] Probably Astronomical
[ ] Possibly Astronomical
[X] Unidentification Tit.
[ ] Other
[ ] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[ ] Unknown

11. COMMENTS
Followed to be condensation trail from a/c which had already left the area.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28981232

Connected across the archive

People

CAPT HACKETT

Organizations

ACS INTELLIGENCE HQ USAFCOMDR AACCOMDR ADCMilitarySPACE TRACK CONTROL CENTER LG

Places

AlaskaELMENDORF AFB, ALASKAWildwood (Army) StationWRIGHT PATTERSON AFB

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

03/0115Z19581958-12-012 December 1958

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