Belingham, Wash, September 1955September 1955

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 Belingham, Wash, September 1955 in September 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

Belingham, Wash, September 1955

Date of incident

September 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

| i : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD | Wal
3 \ 3 y : )
© | 1. DATE’ 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i
oN 0 Wos Balloon i
a 17 Sep 55 Belingham, Wash 0 Probably Balloon
"| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION — | DO Possibly Balloon
iE O° Wos Aircraft
B Local Bjosooz XB Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
3 GMT 2 £3 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
| | 5- PHOTOS . SOURCE fx Was AstronomicalArcturus
HE OVYes 0 Probably Astronomical
L RX No civilian O Possibly Astronomicol
~ | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE B Otheraiilis hihi iis gic
| still observing at time 0D Insufficient Dota for Evaluation ;
1 of 4 1 0 Unknown
"lio. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [11. COMMENTS
§ | Round, white to red, no sound or trail, Arcturus at 280 deg az but 20 deg elev
~ | level course. : observation consistant w evaluation as
: | star.
~ | (see case 3 Sep 55)
| 3
3 ‘ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) ET
) | /
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963682

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Belingham

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-09-01