Ashley, North DakotaNovember 1953

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Ashley, North Dakota in November 1953. 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 19.

Reported location

Ashley, North Dakota

Date of incident

November 1953

State / country

ND / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 19

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

Transcribed text

1. DATE - TIME GROUP
4 Nov 1953 23/2003

2. LOCATION
Ashley, North Dakota

3. SOURCE
Civilian

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
23 minutes [illegible]

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual

7. COURSE
SE

8. PHOTOS
[] Yes
[X] No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
[] Yes
[X] No

10. CONCLUSION
Unknown (Probable)

11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
No major action in 31. Approx. Star Four, light.
Very last at 14 hrs. 7 min. y- extremely disappear.
Via SE. Venus 15 hrs.17 the time in hrs.47 in. Judg.
time 43 in.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28956796

Connected across the archive

Organizations

Technical Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson AFB

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Ashley Ashley, ND Ashley, North Dakota North Dakota