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Case FileNARA NAID 28986211 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

Hawaiian Islands, March 1960March 1960

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 Hawaiian Islands, March 1960 in March 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 37.

Reported location

Hawaiian Islands, March 1960

Date of incident

March 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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Ti DATE. * 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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17 March, 1960 tlavvaiian Islands 0 Probebly Bollosn
i 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF C3SERVATION RYAN, Pe rsen py adligen
A 4 0 Vos Alicraft
: Bae 3 Ground. Visual O Ground-Rodar 0 Probably Aircraft
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; ONT ODS QO O0Aime Visual 3 Air-lntercept Rador O Possibly Aireroft ;
5 PHOTOS . SOURCE ‘DB Was Astronomicallicboor
Q Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
TMs LER . 1 Possibly Astronomical
LC RACE ER a sna ee AE bo DRL RRR LY LH ad ]
7. LENGTH OF 0852RVAYTION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. CDURSE 12) ERGO) $I se fide dari hice te La
0 Insufficient Date for Evaluotion
5-25 Seconds ona falling Hoa,
10. BRIERE SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
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L « Ureen flare falling visicle for. 5 SEC « Ubject viewed by three separate flights
2. Urange~green flare sighted from 25% from Hawaii to mainland. Hesorts are
Sr oll horizon disappzaring bslow horizon, within 12 minutes of each othe ry, which
14 Je Bright light in vertical descent, falls within a normal time error. It
; is assumed that the reports are of the
: same objec te Limited data, however, the
characteristics of a meteor observaticor
are presente.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)
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