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Case FileNARA NAID 28964155 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Beatrice, NebraskaNovember 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 Beatrice, Nebraska in November 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 24.

Reported location

Beatrice, Nebraska

Date of incident

November 1955

State / country

NE / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
. .

CER PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :

* [1 pate 12. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

P rs OD Was Balloon

¢ 4 Nov 55 | Beatrice, Nebraska DO Probably Balloon ¢

*  |'3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE GF OBSERVATION lit Uy Ly

xX

= Local XA Geound- Visual D Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft

E. 05/0001Z a Probably Aircraft

il GMT. ; [1 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

* '|57 PHOTOS {8- SOURCE O Was Astronomical

i OYes 0 Probably Aono 4ar/ PL et)
LE £ No cihvilian 0 Possibly Astronomical

"| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION "| 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other int i mata Cale

E [w] autiiciont Data for Evaluation
fi Ou

| |30 min still in sight 1 stationary a

= [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :

§ | Very bright light, no shape, no sound, yellow | Probably star/planet. Positional data
§ and blue flickering. not included in report.

| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) ih Gh
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964155

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

BeatriceBeatrice, NENebraska

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19551955-11-01

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