Cape Wales Alaska, February 1951February 1951

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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 Cape Wales Alaska, February 1951 in February 1951. 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 8.

Reported location

Cape Wales Alaska, February 1951

Date of incident

February 1951

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 8

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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; f PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION XH CONCLUSIONS
2Feb1951 | Cape Vales Alaska D Probobly Balloon
"3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION | O Possibly Balloon
BE aa £2 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rader - egy PR
our 03/0502 | OAicViws 0 Airiotercest Rader [0 Possibly Alreral |
S. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 2 picid 18 Sn Astrepaeuont
a] 1 i
Prag Civilian O Possibly Astronomicel
| [5 CEnoTH OF OBSERVATION | &. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | % COURSE |& Owher Lights from Ship
| | 8 Rye. Duta for Evaluation
~~ |_2. 15 min then 1 hr 15 min |  Miltiple COTTE Ress
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS
| Alternating red and green l&ght, Observed on | Ship off Neme at 03/2400Z - 04,/0400Z,
| bearing 242 dég from WX station. Red light Most probable cause of sighting,
| below international light and glow below
indicating ship although no superstructrue
visible, In view until 03/0515Z, Disappeared
for % hr and then viewed for 1} hr when
| obscured by fog bank,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28939047

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1951 1951-02-01