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Case FileNARA NAID 28978862 · T1206 Roll 33

Project Blue Book Case File

Billings, MontanaJuly 1958

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 Billings, Montana in July 1958. 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 33.

Reported location

Billings, Montana

Date of incident

July 1958

State / country

MT / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
10 Jul 5 11 8 Probably Bell
Ju 8 Billings, Montana robably Balloon
: 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
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O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
s 0 Unknown
l1 hr 10 mins three South
). BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Three objs, thinner & longer than a“
| cigar, very bright golden w/fuzzy Probably interplay of sun's
outline, in a loose group. First obj slant rays on scattered clouds
was stationary when first sighted,
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