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Case FileNARA NAID 28988888 · T1206 Roll 40

Project Blue Book Case File

Grand Portage, MinnesotaSeptember 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 Grand Portage, Minnesota 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

Grand Portage, Minnesota

Date of incident

September 1960

State / country

MN / 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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| I. DATE 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS |
3 : ia Bolt
§ 12 Sep 20 Crand Portage, Minnesota 0 Was Golleon
A | AE re ; mlb S ass 0 Probably Balloon |
! eee eee eee DO Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP { 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 5. |
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| Local A EBD es a YS ra ed | a Ground Yi sual = Sround Radar i (wid Probably Aircraft neil o{®) oe) >r
12/0L20)7 ; : LR Pp i j i |
| OMT ee MT IVE Saat 0 AirVYisual 0 Air-intercept Rodar O Possibly Aircraft |
5. PHOTOS | 8. SOURCE a C Was Asironomicol |
O Yes " | ee {00 Probobly Astronomical i
: | LAVIlian 0 Possibly Astronomical !
| 3 Ne |
J. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Hn Sele ern MS ES
| |o Insulticiant Dora for Evaluation |
y-20 min che varied | Unknown
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(10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [1. COMMENTS :
| Very larze object similar to tank on a water |Flight path indicates cb ject was »robadly |
tower owing many bright red lights at la helicopter. Efforts to determine if a
00-800 £t estimated. Headed W from Grand helicopter was in 2ir at time of sighting|
1 H : 1 so . 1
ortazge. ~aturnea weading Di Ae Suzy T siand net with faliiure. - ou 05310. Tas
| (42 Take Suverior). descended behind a hill [planet Jupiter, which was mag -1.0 and
gr ee Siem cs fs : hraa dunat cabtdn at R3ma ~~ cigntin
an the island disarpearing momentarily, {vas 4 as v ib oid pey iors; rh Bod |
| ¢ ” s . Ls ame wd Ps ar ~~ cd. - Tu - TY —- }
| reappear=d, heading W and disappeared. All [ITU Pa  FOReRotRe- CHPIVES Soweves |
aneuvering at slow speed. [could OT ce Tespensliole LOT Waal aprareny.y
passed overhead and then was seen in =. i
No evidence available indicatinz that
|sighting was due to an interplanetary
ace vahicle or that it nstituted a
lthreat to U.S. curity. |
ATIC PORM 329 (RXV 26 SRP 52)
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