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Case FileNARA NAID 28966130 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Bountiful, UtahJuly 1956

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 Bountiful, Utah in July 1956. 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 25.

Reported location

Bountiful, Utah

Date of incident

July 1956

State / country

UT / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

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
0 Was Balloon |
1 7 July 1956 Bountiful, Utah SER hay Betioon
; 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ; 4
‘ 0 Was Aircraft
CREE iba re re XX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probobly Aircraft
: Ais 07/13307% ey : O Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
i “5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE DO Was Astronomical
: 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
] FREY civilian (GOC) O Possibly Astronomical
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE O,Othet—oo
4 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 0 ' Insufficient Date for Evaluation
a ; 0 Unknown
none minutes one stationary !
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Cne object, shape undefined, the The observer did not see the
size of the head of a pin held at same object in the same position {
arms length, metallic grey in color, Tor a period of seven hours (
| geen at 40-45dgrs elevation at an although he observed it actually
azimuth of 10-15 dgrs. Observer wore only one minute). It is highly
| noloroid sunglasses. unlikely that an object, be Hv
i balloon or star, would remain
E stationary over that period of
time. The observer possibly maw
: | a vallocn at the initial sighting.
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§ ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP §2)
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