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Case FileNARA NAID 28988835 · T1206 Roll 40

Project Blue Book Case File

Fargo & Grand Forks, North DakotaSeptember 1960

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Fargo & Grand Forks, North Dakota in September 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 40.

Reported location

Fargo & Grand Forks, North Dakota

Date of incident

September 1960

State / country

ND / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 40

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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4 { 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
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j G Sep 60 Fargo & Grand Forks, North Dekota |B Wes Balloon
3 | x buns piel “8 10 Probably Bolloon
ak Probe
4 | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF DBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
5 0 Was Ancraft |
4 Local es 0 ams 2 Ground- Visual O Ground-Reder 1 Probably Aircraft \
BE 10/0180 " »
- FR RE 5) 02 hr 2 ARR 2 AirVYisvol 0 Airintarcent Rodor DO Possibly Aircroft |
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3 { 5. PHOTOS 5. SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomical
3 | 0 Yes ) Probobly Astrenomicel lat ane
h a Ne Civilian and Military OU Possibly Astronomical
4 | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CEE REE
3 | 0 Insufficient Dota for Evoluotion!
E | 2-3 sec one | INE descending |9 Unknown
§ 10. BRIEZ SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
3 |8right green-white object, size of dime, oval This object was seen by a large number
4 js2ape. L0j20T was also signted by numerous { of people, both on the ground and in the!
foivil a/c. Cbject was descending rapidly. air. This fact would siggest that the
3 object was atl great height and very larg
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