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Case FileNARA NAID 28972768 · T1206 Roll 29

Project Blue Book Case File

El Paso, TexasNovember 1957

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 El Paso, Texas in November 1957. 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 29.

Reported location

El Paso, Texas

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

TX / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION |W FPessibly Belloan 1
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5. PHOTOS . SOUR O Was Astronomical ji
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«1 No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical : on
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE QxOther_unrvoliable cnt Si i 1
O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation on
| O Unknown 8
20-0 szconds ong westerly |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
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brownish with bluish glow. String
of lights around side approx 3 up A
from the bottom, Whirring sound i
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stalled, light balbs blew out. | :
: Got out of car & obj approached and E
then went away over the mountains. a
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28972768

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