Bellingham, Wash, September 1955September 1955

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Bellingham, Wash, September 1955 in September 1955. The full case file (6 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

Bellingham, Wash, September 1955

Date of incident

September 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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© [Toate 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

3 : O Was Ball

§ |38ep 55 Bellingham, Wash O Probably Balloon

"| 3 DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ail da 1) tally

E ye ia 3 Ground-Visual O Ground-Radar a A ea

| GMT 04/05302 DO AirVi sual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft ! ;
gE 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical I

\ O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical |

F R No civilian (coc) D Possibly Astronomical |
© |7. LENOTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Othe; SHESISLTLID |

1 15 mins 1 see description 5 Did clent Data for Evaluation

~ [to BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS | fh
a One round, white ob) size of head of pin held |Investigated by Flight 1-A, 46024 AISS.

© | at arms length, seen by observer to move Forwarded to ATIC as "unknown'.

. | very slowly in a 30 deg arc across the front
PF of the big dipper.

* | (SEE CASE 17 SEP 55)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963501

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Bellingham

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-09-01