Battiest, Okla., April 1952April 1952

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 Battiest, Okla., April 1952 in April 1952. The case file consists of a single scanned page 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 9.

Reported location

Battiest, Okla., April 1952

Date of incident

April 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 9

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 1

Transcribed text

1. DATE: 29 Apr 52

2. LOCATION: Battiest, Okla.

3. STATION GROUP: Local___1100___GMT___[illegible]

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [checked] Ground-Visual, [unchecked] Air-Visual, [unchecked] Ground-Radar, [unchecked] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS: [unchecked] Yes, [checked] No

6. SOURCE: Civilian (Wo-13)

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: [blank]

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1

9. COURSE: L

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Cubic rectangular. Object traveling downward, 45 deg trajectory, fell into pond.

11. COMMENTS: Object fell into pond, splash & water tube 50 feet sizzled - pond searched with negative results.

12. CONCLUSIONS: [checked] Yes (Balloon), [unchecked] Probably Balloon, [unchecked] Possibly Balloon, [unchecked] Yes Aircraft, [unchecked] Probably Aircraft, [unchecked] Possibly Aircraft, [unchecked] Yes Astronomical, [unchecked] Probably Astronomical, [unchecked] Possibly Astronomical, [unchecked] Other, [checked] Insufficient Data for Evaluation, [checked] Unknown

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28941340

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Battiest Battiest, Okla.

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1952 1952-04-01 29 Apr 52