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Case FileNARA NAID 28967079 · T1206 Roll 26

Project Blue Book Case File

Fontana, CaliforniaAugust 1956

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 Fontana, California in August 1956. 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 26.

Reported location

Fontana, California

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
| ) PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD EE
1. DATE’ 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
’ R 2 0 Wes Balloon
21 August 1956 Fontana, California O Probably Belleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Bolloon
O Wes Aircraft
Loeod | x8 GreundVisvel O Ground-Roder £8 Probobly Airereft
omMy__22/06497 O Ain Visvel O Air-Intercopt Rader | Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTO: SOUR O Wos Astronemicel
0 Yes O Probobly Astronomicel
+ Ne Civilian (GOC) O Possibly Astronomicel
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CB SE —
0 Insufficient Date for Eveluetion
O Unknown
minutes one moving East
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS : PR
One round red object, with a tail, Description of sighting indicates
the size of a basketball at arm's that object was probably a jet i
length. Object was moving in an a/c, the tail being the contrail
easterly direction and disappeared of the jet,
by fading into a fog. Object was
observed visually for two minutes,
ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
; ; i :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28967079

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

CaliforniaFontanaFontana, CA

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19561956-08-01

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