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Case FileNARA NAID 28980642 · T1206 Roll 34

Project Blue Book Case File

Grand Rapids, MichiganOctober 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 Grand Rapids, Michigan in October 1958. The full case file (6 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 34.

Reported location

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Date of incident

October 1958

State / country

MI / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
1 : : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
[1 oate 2. .LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
| 8 i : O Was Balloon
| 3 17 October 193% Grand Rapids, Michigan 8 Bubb ia
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION SRBLEEN, orn
E oR CRN EE ERS aR ta B :Ground- Visual O Ground-Radoar a LAT PN
GMT 13/0423572 : 0 Air Visudl O Air-Intercept Radar © Possibly Airerofy |
5. .PHOTOS « SOURC I< Was Astronomical Meteor
QO Yes O Probably putepnam) ont
| E +N ¢ i: OD Possibly Astronemic
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE {Tc To) | Pera io YC EA CEE
: O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
pe ) 0 Unknown
25 seconds 24 SE
| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
Twenty-four round, amber colored Checked w/ an astronomer, & his
3 objs, size of dime,Traveling at opinion that due to <€scription,
very high alt, Two flights of flight path, and time duration, ;
12 each. objs were probably fm the arie- :
: tids meteoric shower which occurs
i in October, - :
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: 2 prs
/ 6

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28980642

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