Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 1961April 1961

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 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 1961 in April 1961. 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 42.

Reported location

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 1961

Date of incident

April 1961

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i 5 no R O Was Bolloon
1 Apr 61 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba O Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
: 0 Was Aircraft
Local es BG round- Vi sual 0 Ground-Rador Q Probably Aircraft
GuPLi/103%7 mr 6 0 AirVisval O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS URCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yes Spa O Probably Astronomical
BNe Military O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0" Other 2881208
| 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
» Finutes Une Descending 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Bini
touna velliow ball trailinz black smoke, Smoke Identified a3 missile test 3 Titan
" dissapated rividly. -bscrved from 3 deg J=15. 22» : -
. ~ 2 2 » Sra "eB Pr
elevation in East disarrearing oelow norlizon, x 33 2 a
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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) 4 A La
RR RR RRR RRR RR RR EERE EEE EEE EEE ——————= b

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28992020

Connected across the archive

Installations

Offutt Air Force Base

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-04-01