Gurnie, IllinoisApril 1956

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 Gurnie, Illinois in April 1956. 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 25.

Reported location

Gurnie, Illinois

Date of incident

April 1956

State / country

IL / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

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
: its O Was Balloon
8 April 1956 urnie, Illinois 0 Prehanly Baton
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Belieon
; : § 0 Was Aircraft |
| Local 0,770 *4Ground-Vi sual 0 Ground-Rador 0 Probably Aircraft
: our 09/0421 - D Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS - SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
D Yes DO Probobly Astronomical
XR No Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE LYRE 1 FE ET TD ERC
Gc Xnaulficiont Dotae for Evaluation
0 wn
6-8 minutes one unknown 4d
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
| One round object size o¥ basketball. [No positional information given,
Color orange - faded, No motion reported or flight’
| path, Insufficient data for
evaluation,
3 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28965362

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Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Gurnie Gurnie, IL Illinois

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1956 1956-04-01