[ILLEGIBLE], 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 [ILLEGIBLE], March 1960 in March 1960. The full case file (5 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

[ILLEGIBLE], March 1960

Date of incident

March 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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3 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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7. LENGTH CF OBSERVATION : 8. MUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE efile) (1) i SES RN TUN SIURane
3 U Insufficient Date for Evaluation
hot Given une SPOT 0 Unknown
10. DRIEZ SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
glongated white object, not burning but Request for satell it inf'ormation sent
apnaarineg to be in orbit at over 100,000 ft to wnace track, however no renly wa
4 A titude first sigh ted through sextant at recaived. all indications are that the
32 deg azimuth due north and disappeared at object was ‘in orbit. Sputnik 3 did not
pt LA deg on a hsading of 1650 v7. Anoeared to decay until Avril £ Ten ria ol 1 = WW Os 9 FA = Te |
have . characteristics of satzllits,. No pickup that this was thes dbject, however since
on radar, no confirmaing dota was available, and
the duration was not included in the
: report, the case is listed as insuflficipnt
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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-03-01