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Case FileNARA NAID 28989590 · T1206 Roll 40

Project Blue Book Case File

Boulder, ColoradoOctober 1960

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 Boulder, Colorado in October 1960. 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 40.

Reported location

Boulder, Colorado

Date of incident

October 1960

State / country

CO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 40

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
i pre PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
3 1. DATE § LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
[a 5-12 Oct 60 Boulder, Colorado 0 Yas Bolloon
tle : ’ : 0 Probably Belison
ee ——— SS ——————————— a te ——————————— Tr ————————ren EE
3. DATE-TIME CROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION = TeSmEy Batten
4 > . 0 Was Aivcroft
4 RA oY " M 2
Beales A 21 Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Rodor 0 Probubly Aireraf?
i sy /nanlico aaill A:
1 our. 6-13/00457 i 0 Ain Visual O Air-Intarcopt Radar | 0 Possibly Aircroft
i 5. PHOTOS I” SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomicol
0 Yos Sask i Probably Astrenomiesl Varnus
d Ma Civilian 0 Poazsibly Astronomical
; 7. LENGTH O= C332ZRVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BN
3 H 0 Insufficient Date far Evaluation
FE 20 min | one W 5: Unkvewn
19, BRIZE SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |11. COMMENTS
: Wizite object, size of pea. Mora than 45° above | Venus was in a direction correspending
aorizon when sighted. Disappeared below to that given by the witness and was
A western horizon. Object at first appeared far brighter than eny of the stars. The
stationary. planet set at aprox 1805, lasting aprox
4 20 min from time it was first sighted.
4 be FU ie BSB Te A SR ps le AI pd ANS wa AA
ATIC FORM 329 (RZY 25 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28989590

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