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Case FileNARA NAID 28985701 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

Denver, ColoradoJanuary 1960

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 Denver, Colorado in January 1960. 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 37.

Reported location

Denver, Colorado

Date of incident

January 1960

State / country

CO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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y 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS i

a Pe Tae SL ; 3 Was Balloon

: nh Re 0 denver, uolorado £0 Probobly Balloon

| 3. DATE-TIME CROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Di RossiBy Balloon

FP y XX 8 j 0 Wos Aircraft

ee ee @ Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rodar 0 Probably Aircraft

i i GMTL hata BTL 1 Air Visual 0 Air-Intarceps Radar o Possibly Aircraft

} k 35 PHOTOS a. SOURCE ‘or Was Astronomical . 4 >t aor

: Yes 0) Probably Astronomical

i © No Civilian 0) Possibly Astronomical

§ 7. LENGTH OF OASERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE nel Of / ry Yo fo dS ES AC
E 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
OUnz-half second une NER) 0 Unknown

10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

4 hlonzated object, si,e of a psa or slightly Duration of sizhting and instantaneous
larger, &luish in color with a tail the disappearance togather with the color
i same size as thz object. Describzd as and general appearances of the object
I. “samething falling in flames", indicate that it was a m2teor.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28985701

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