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Case FileNARA NAID 28961909 · T1206 Roll 23

Project Blue Book Case File

Fellows, CaliforniaMay 1955

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 Fellows, California in May 1955. 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 23.

Reported location

Fellows, California

Date of incident

May 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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"1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
9 0D Was Balloon
X 4 Ma 1955 ‘ellows ali ‘1 i 0D Probably Balloon
g PR 0 AR) EAA IER 8 ea B00 BUR A fle) of of - SCR 0 Possibly Balloon
Eo 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
I de [A REE EL EU CS NOs XCk Ground- Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar on Rola BN |
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l GMT 04/17307Z 0 Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
1 3 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
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. SERRE LE ERR IS. 4 EL Ea Possibly Astronomica
3 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE I
f i 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
f GS OQ Unknown
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| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| a One white round object, size of a Due to lack of information sub-
| football held at arm's length, was mitted in the preliminary rpt,
[i observed to drift in an easterly and the improbability of furthe
g direction, Sighting was observed for investigation producing more
| forty-five seconds and then object data of value, this rpt was
| 3 faded from view. not deemed worthy of follow-up
| investigation, Probable a/c :
§ sighting.
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| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961909

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