Cashmere, WashingtonSeptember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Cashmere, Washington in September 1957. 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 29.

Reported location

Cashmere, Washington

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

WA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

Cho PROJECT: 10073 RECORD CARD |
1. DATE > ” 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
$e" he O Wos Bolleon
30 Sentember 1957 Cashmere, Washington 5 Rat +14 en
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION i
“ O Woes Aireroft
em7__01/0200Z o RBG O Air-Intercept Rader |O Possibly Aircraft
S. PHOTOS iC O Was Astronomicol
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
3XNe Civilian O Possibly Astronemical |
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE XX omerXites |
; O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
; ; 0 Unknown
3 minutes six NW
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Six objects with appearance of upside Objects mving with wind. Sound
down light colored cone, dark on inside like kites with tails broken
with strings or ropes hnoging from loose and moving with wind.
outside perimeter, The cones appeared Sunset at 1750, 10 minutes prior
to be abhout the size of a quarter & to sighting possible disappear-
at fairly low altitude. No sound, ance due to loss of sun on objs.
Objects had erratic movement and were
traveling very fast. Appoared to have
| dropped from an a/c, yot traveled
quite fast,
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971869

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Cashmere Cashmere, WA Washington

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-09-01