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Case FileNARA NAID 28963631 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Dakota City, NebraskaSeptember 1955

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 Dakota City, Nebraska in September 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

Dakota City, Nebraska

Date of incident

September 1955

State / country

NE / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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4 1. DATE I LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
© |10 sep 55 Dakota City, Nebraska DO Was Balloon
aE TR RRR ee gE RE i O Probably Balloon

~ | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon

j {fo eali-odatstuin ave nail ae ny # Giound- Visual O Ground-Rador g Probably Aircraft

i GMT 10/1 ds 0 Atr-Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

4 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
EE | O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical

i No vilian O Possibly Astronomical

"| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE % (0] 11 1/ inn LA MEG SO nl

4 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation

~ |8 min 1 circled dit

~ 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS 7 |
.  |Round, silver, orbited. ot much information. Insufficient Data |
: for evaulation.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963631

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Dakota CityDakota City, NENebraska

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19551955-09-01

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