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Case FileNARA NAID 28990633 · T1206 Roll 41

Project Blue Book Case File

Anchorage, AlaskaDecember 1960

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 Anchorage, Alaska in December 1960. The full case file (5 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 41.

Reported location

Anchorage, Alaska

Date of incident

December 1960

State / country

AK / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 41

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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seuuuenuiilllesey PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

Dao Anchoraga, !/ 5) | O Was Bolloon

= 17 « 60 nchorage, Alaska 0 Probably Balloon
|. | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
. J 0 Was Aircraft
t.ocal iio gi DE p——— LY) 7% 50 y TR hk hi Radar a Probably Aircraft
§ GMT 18/03302 0 Air Visuvol O Air-Intercepr Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
i 5. PHOTOS &. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical

0 Yes . O Probably Astronomical
§ No Civilian ODO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE i Other ChO LT
# HE 0 insufficient Dota for Evaluation

14-17 min one SSE 0 Unknown
. [10 BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS TRE os, vies

Round object r=d and grean,chang=d color, no Echo TI.
|tall or sound, moving from 70° elev 280° to 45°
elev 155° in straight flight path. Visible
several previous times elways in same pattern.
| Corrolation with U of Alaska evaluated as Echol
] ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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