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Case FileNARA NAID 28961693 · T1206 Roll 22

Project Blue Book Case File

Bakersfield, CaliforniaApril 1955

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Bakersfield, California in April 1955. 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 22.

Reported location

Bakersfield, California

Date of incident

April 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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= 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
] : RSA 0 Vas Balloon
6 April 1955 ~~~ | Bakersfield, California 0 Probably Ballcon |
1 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION |O Possibly Balloon
i IX Vb dg 0 Was Aircroft
FY AR HAE a BR SARS RGR A E1Ground- Visual 0) Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
BE CMT. 07/05302Z rT SEE RETA PISS od Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar i Hoda gc
- 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0D Vios Astronomical Jupiter
i Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
4 ox SH RX XPossibly Astronumical
3 7, LENGTH OF OBSERVATION = | 6. NUMBER OP OBJECTS | 9 COURSE = 10. Otherto. oo
k approx 15 mins 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 pag 2 i 3 0 Unknown
] I LE ERR Th A oe one stationary
3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS i
1 ~ One bright light, approx the size At time of sighting, planet
Eo of a dime held at arm's length, with | Jupiter was high in southwestern
bs no sound, & blinking "like a star" sky. Moon was full & rather low
3 was observed to romain motionless in sky at time of sighting.
1 in the sky by a housewife, Sighting Suggests that sighting was
was made through a wire screen, caused by planet Jupiter since
| it is the direction of the
4 reported sighting and is brightest
E in that area,
4 SRST A
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961693

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