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Case FileNARA NAID 28999214 · T1206 Roll 46

Project Blue Book Case File

Kansas City, KansasSeptember 1962

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 Kansas City, Kansas in September 1962. 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 46.

Reported location

Kansas City, Kansas

Date of incident

September 1962

State / country

KS / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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I 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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13 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION id
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| 5. PHOTOS i SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
: ZT Yas O Probably Astronomical
INI RS O Possibly Astronomical
: £1 to civilian I
7. LENGTH OF OR5ZRVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE EX Other HOO om
: 01 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
: et 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
] Two reports of object resembling satel- Both witness employed as nostal
lite decay from observers in different clerks and reporting official
i parts of Kansas city, whose place of indicated that possibility of
FE employment was the same, Round Or oval collusion existed. Report made
: object, yellow or amber, observed to bE two weeks after decay of Sputnik
: 3,000 feet over Kansas City descending IV. Since report was fm city w/
: to 2,000 feet where it fell intc small large population, it 1s improb-
1 pieces of burning light prior to falling able that an event of this naturel
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| to ground, Flight straight from SW to would be observed by only two
3 NW. Observed for 5 minutes. people. In addition there were
: no rpts fm air traffic in the arga
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