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Case FileNARA NAID 28993909 · T1206 Roll 43

Project Blue Book Case File

Hardinsburg, KentuckyAugust 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 Hardinsburg, Kentucky in August 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 43.

Reported location

Hardinsburg, Kentucky

Date of incident

August 1961

State / country

KY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 43

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
‘DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIOF¥.,
0 Wos Bolloen
Yo Aue 61 Hardinsourg, Kentucky a] Api. Bolloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Possibly Balloon
ADA ul O Was Aircraft
DR — — 8 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rodar Q Probably Airerafe
OMT_ E08 [Dida [Lobos FE SA 0 AirVisual O Air-Intercopt Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. "PHOTOS » SOUR O Was Astronomical :
C Yes O Probobly Astronomical
: X38 Ns Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
1 7. LENGTH C2 .03SERVATION ' 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CTE OTH wadiininiainn
/ O [Insufficient Data for Evaluation
4 ] 1) 0 Unknown
10. BRIZF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Ob JL cio of meno 1. COMMENTS \1-though duration of sighting
ROVIAE W to 8 at 45% elev in 5, Appeared to and speed not given, enough info is here '
wobble than turned and came "back," to assume that this is an a/c sight ing.
fi ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28993909

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