East Tawas, MichiganApril 1957

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 East Tawas, Michigan in April 1957. 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 27.

Reported location

East Tawas, Michigan

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

MI / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

BN TE I REN ERR NCRDIN Rf “0 ARO Ct So— + Tee grr - Tr -
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; : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
DS EE ———————————]
| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: O Was Holtnan |
13 April 1957 rast Tawons. Michios 0 Probably Balloon
2 LSE UAY 1957 LASL rawas, Michigan 0 Possibly Balloon
: 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION J
i Le eal hilatdisad iad biaa amine Ch HE Cae Sg 8:6round- Vi sual 0 Ground-Reder 5 Probably Alverofs |
GMT 14/00207 i DO Air-Visuol DO Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
| 3 ; +0 No Civilian ] : : 0 Possibly Astronomical
& 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Elio) a] fini SE eS SEA i
02 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
kK ; : 0D Unknown
i 30 minutes one 320 dgr Eo
: 10. BRIER SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
f One object, oval, side view double Insufficient data for evaluation
1 disk effect, sizr of dime, color white
4 turning to red. Extremely intense light,
3 object moved in front of star cluster .
and then was lost,
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969537

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

East Tawas East Tawas, MI Michigan

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-04-01