Jamestown, CaliforniaApril 1955

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Jamestown, California in April 1955. 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 22.

Reported location

Jamestown, California

Date of incident

April 1955

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

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
; x82 Wos Balloon
SAU ARERR dinestown, California 1H Lresobly Qetleen |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION idbubunt  capbond
Local SPN XC Ground- Visual : 0 Ground-Radar = RI aan
our. 06/20002 Sia 0 Air Vi suol 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
7 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical |
O Yes 00 Probobly Astronomical
a . Trio Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE  |D,Othetmo
lw] pa Sticieny Data for Evaluation
0 nknown
| a ONS WBE ad i
g 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Round, white. was definitely a weather balloon,
J ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28961683

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

California Jamestown Jamestown, CA

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-04-01