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Case FileNARA NAID 28964160 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Council Bluffs, IowaNovember 1955

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 Council Bluffs, Iowa in November 1955. 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 24.

Reported location

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Date of incident

November 1955

State / country

IA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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Ea 5 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ; :
| |. DATE © 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS : :
: i : : 0 Was Balloon
i 5 N 55 ! u] Probably Balloon |
* | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION —|D@ Possibly Balloon
bi O Was Aircraft
1 A Bey] Jet as A RN Ry XJ Ground-Vi sual O Ground-Rador a Probably Aircraft
A GM 05/ 14437, 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar ® Possibly Aircreft
| 5 ors 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
b 0 Yes OD Probably Astronomical i
4 ® No dlvilians (all 15 8 old) O Possibly Astronomical
I | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [38 o [1 "bas COREE PGRAEL JUL MR LO
b O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
b 0 Unknown
I LEVEBSGOMIREE Le a aaa  NNROR LL ee a
© [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
i | One flat, round obj, size of basketball held Possible low flying jet a/.c
© | at arms length, attracted the observers' atten :
© | tion to it by sound, which was comparable to
© | a Jet. Ob) moved at extremely high rate of
. | speed.
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