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Case FileNARA NAID 29000138 · T1206 Roll 47

Project Blue Book Case File

Bellflower, CaliforniaJanuary 1963

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 Bellflower, California in January 1963. 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 47.

Reported location

Bellflower, California

Date of incident

January 1963

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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BEG PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : |
EP 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS ; i
i : i O Wos Balloon | |
EE 21 January 1963 Bellflower, California O Probably Balloon }
* |'3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION ei bh dl |
Eo Local 1845-1855 PST XX] Ground-VYisual O Ground-Radar 8 Jas Dreechy §
4 Small TX 5 phn |
LE OMT BORAT i [0] ¢ i i sual 0 Air-Intercept Radar ossioly Alrcrait f
3 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
i O Yes O Probably Astronomical
- Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
E 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE XK XOther ellite HA I)
f 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation i t
E ; | 0 Unknown
F 10 minutes one SE
- 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
4 Bright light comparable to bright star | Sighting characteristic of satel-
f observed in flight from 20 dgr east lite, ECHO I was North of city
. and 15 dgr south of vertical to point at 55 dgr elevation heading SE at
1 over horizon in southeast, Visual with | 1836, Nine minute time error con-
3 and without small TX. sistent with data submitted as
E probable time error, Case evalua-
3 ted as ECHO I.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29000138

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