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Case FileNARA NAID 28985678 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

Baudette, MinnesotaJanuary 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 Baudette, Minnesota in January 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 37.

Reported location

Baudette, Minnesota

Date of incident

January 1960

State / country

MN / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
14 January, 1960 Bandette, MHinnesoia 0 Was Balloon
* 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bolloon
y — yi 0 Wos Aircraft
Laos en ee KH Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
oRL 2 hab AA a UR 0D Air Visuol 0 Air-Intercept Radar Bi Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS é. SOURCE £1" Was Astronomical Meteor
0 Yas 00 Probably Astronomical
3 %o Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
iat alae BNe ss CL eC
2. LENGTH OF C33ERVYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other—
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
one s=a2¢cond One Down a Unknown
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Bright white ball-shapsd object, size of a Observation has characteristics or
basketball . Slight tail presant. No sound a "fireball" types meteor.
Disannzared instantaneously falling straight
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28985678

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