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Case FileNARA NAID 29000486 · T1206 Roll 47

Project Blue Book Case File

Duluth, MinnesotaMarch 1963

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 Duluth, Minnesota in March 1963. The full case file (5 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 47.

Reported location

Duluth, Minnesota

Date of incident

March 1963

State / country

MN / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
4 : Duluth, Minnesota 0 Wos Balloon
26 March 1963 Eronch River, Minnosota |S Efebdly Baileen
= 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ata Steril
- Local Ter Ce ET BA TRY X&round- Vi sual D Ground-Roder a ube bad
GMT 27/85007 AY, iri O Air Visual O Air-intercep? Rodar O Pessibly Aircraft

Lo en os - 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical meteor

2 0 Yes O Probobly Astronomical

3 3 No Milit & Civili DO Possibly Astronomical

P 7. LENGTH OF. OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [nS C11 ERR NE

E O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation

1, 3 seconds 0 Unknown

g 2, 3-86 second explodi

~ |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

= 1/ Round blue green object similar Multiple report of meteor sightd
ti to a flare observed at 60 dgr eleva- ing.
go tion 180 dgr azimuth in straight

- flight to 45 dgr elevation 180 dgr azfi-

muth at which time it faded. Duration E
3 3 seconds. :

2 2/ Round bluish white turning red

3 breaking up and fading observed for 3-6

§ seconds at 45 dgr elevation 230 dgr ;
A ~ 2zimuth, Disappeared at same azimuth

= . on horizon. Object broke up.
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) | :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29000486

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