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Case FileNARA NAID 28965675 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Columbia, TennesseeMay 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 Columbia, Tennessee in May 1956. 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 25.

Reported location

Columbia, Tennessee

Date of incident

May 1956

State / country

TN / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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Se zo PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD gE
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: 0 Wos Bolloon
20 May 1956 Columbia, Tennessee O_ Probably Bolleon
_— ee  ——) __— —_ ®X Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
yp eR RR 0 RE ® Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar B Probably Aiveraft
omT7.20/2315Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircroft
SE pe) Yt a EE I TRE Lo) a A RET 1, To VA EI)
0 Yes (m] Probably Astronomical
: 3XNo Civilian ( GOC) O Possibly Astronemicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE OWE 1) RE he Te A
: 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
’ . x O Unknown
three to four minutes four or more hovering : |
4 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: Oblong, flat, circular objects, four Description of bojects indicate
or more in number, silvery metallic that this sighting was possibly
color in a cluster, Appeared as caused by a cluster of balloons,
1 though the sun was reflecting off m Negative radar contact,
metallic surfaces, Objects hovered in
} same area, moving up & down & side-
i ways between two banks of clouds,
1 Seen through binoculars of unkbown
power,
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
: fs : : X
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28965675

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