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Case FileNARA NAID 28978569 · T1206 Roll 33

Project Blue Book Case File

Fort Bragg, North CarolinaJune 1958

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 Fort Bragg, North Carolina in June 1958. 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 33.

Reported location

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Date of incident

June 1958

State / country

NC / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Wes Balloon
0 an 5° oe Yq ro North Car i 1 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP % TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bolloon \
0 Was Aircraft
Local 3 —— 0 Ground-Visval O Ground-Radar Q Probably Airer oft
GMT I 0.057 0 Ain Visvol O Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS JOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
x0 No Militar: @ xPossibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE e Other: LL TIE LED —
O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
: 0 Unknown
JO mins one North
Circular obj, size of full moon, light moon.with haze giving strange
1silver, lower section surrounded by a| appearance. There ar: no first
thin greenish haze. At first obj was mag stars in the general area rpyc
motionless, then hegan slight oscil- at that time of night. 305 degree
lating motion & increased to great elev rules out mirage as possibld
speed & disappeared. Observaton at 30 |deause altho indications of refraq-
deg elevation, tion or mirage are present, winds
are fm the West ruling out a wing-

: blown obj. Most plausible explang-
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sient data to substatinte this.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28978569

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