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Case FileNARA NAID 28999874 · T1206 Roll 47

Project Blue Book Case File

Cedar Lake, WisconsinNovember 1962

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 Cedar Lake, Wisconsin in November 1962. 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 47.

Reported location

Cedar Lake, Wisconsin

Date of incident

November 1962

State / country

WI / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
L
L Sp is PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
: I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Wos Balloon
. |. 30 November 1962 Cedar Lake, Wisconsin Bb BECO paeeh |
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION bel
§ tocol — AXGround- Visual O Ground-Rodar a Probably Airerofr A
y GMT 30/23042Z O AirVisuol O Air-Intercept Rador O Possibly Aircroft |
l 5. PHOTOS é. SOURCE XXWas Astronomical Meteor i
. 0 Yes w] Adi tk depitobe |
3 ey oP i ? ica
ln Xe Civilian itd Lal Maida
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Wo Oty ds obs anal |
a 0 Insufficient Dote for Evaluation §
3 0 Unknown
ged RUGHHOR ..  lloicone |
"10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
. | Bright green ball appearing to be about| Duration is short. No mention of
. | 2 feet in diameter at a distance of speed of obj or angle of descent
© | 200 ft. with three feet tail or white No attempt at rewovery or effort
. | observed at tree top level in descent made to contact additional wit-
: below trees assumed to hit ground. nesses, Probably a meteor, Tail
3 Flashed when hit ground, Sighting at indicates horizontal rather than :
3 dusk, Total sighting 2-4 Bheconds, vertical flight & gives indica-
3 tion that speed of flight was
4 involved, Description conforms to
i to analysis as meteor,
[ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) iV,
| . pF : ;
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999874

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