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Case FileNARA NAID 28999056 · T1206 Roll 46

Project Blue Book Case File

Columbus, OhioSeptember 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 Columbus, Ohio in September 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 46.

Reported location

Columbus, Ohio

Date of incident

September 1962

State / country

OH / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION a 1 7 J
19 aan £9 PMalumbiis hie 3 Was Balioon
y WAR 2s) Qc ORAS | no AD 110
ad sium 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME CPOLP [4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION TT |9 Possibly Balloon
Local Ck EURO kN 8 Ground-Visua) 0 Ground-Hadar AX Was Aircraft
ae 1 ope 1 Probably Aircraft
13/01 Srl, 0 1307 3 2 & ib! A f
as | 3 AirVisuval 0 Air-intereapt Radar ng PEPISVY. ITOTaRY
3. PHOTOS &. SOURCE 1 Was Astronomical
: 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical :
Neo civilian O Possibly Astronomicel
"7. LENGTH OF O33ZRYATION 5. NUUBER OF OBJECTS | 9 COURSE = [of Other...
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
N = ~re " 0 J
Not Repor ve ad TWO, 1 ea 1.B, 2.NE Unknown
10, BRIE® SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS EER RRA
1. Object traveling on East erly course 1, Probable A/C. |
blinking on and off,
2. Ot : on ) 2, Possible A/C, or ECHO I. ECHO dats
YA da - ES ; En ” (3 * Vso.
N object observed tra v@ling NE, rules out ECHO as possible sighting
since the satelite was not visible over
Columbus at this time. There is insuffi
clent data for analysis of this object,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 IZP 52) 5
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999056

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