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Case FileNARA NAID 28988271 · T1206 Roll 39

Project Blue Book Case File

Galena Airport, AlaskaAugust 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Galena Airport, Alaska in August 1960. 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 39.

Reported location

Galena Airport, Alaska

Date of incident

August 1960

State / country

AK / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 39

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
1 . [4 :
un PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
E . SEE  ——————————————————————
] 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
4 0 Wes Boll
20 Aug 60 Galena Airport, Alaska D Prebably Belloon
; 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
WRT ats ——— X Ground- Visual O Ground-Roder 5 Broun Brverdh |
GMT____20/ 10452 O Air Visvel O Air-Intercopt Rodor |O Possibly Aircraft
S. PHOTOS o O Wes Astronomicol
; 0 Yes ODO Probably Astronemicel
p : & Ne Military : O Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE &X Orher_POSS_satelld
O Insufficient Dote for Evaluation
30 sec one NNE Ww p—
: SEPERATE RSE SURO SOIIING . o. NARIN: S
b 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Round object, white like a star, size of rea. Correlated with Nome, Alaska sighting
] Disappeared behind a cloud. of 19 Aug 60 as possible satellite.
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $3)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988271

Connected across the archive

Places

AlaskaGalena Airport, AK

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19601960-08-01

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