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Case FileNARA NAID 28940397 · T1206 Roll 9

Project Blue Book Case File

Kansas City, MODecember 1951

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, MO in December 1951. 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 9.

Reported location

Kansas City, MO

Date of incident

December 1951

State / country

MO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 9

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE - 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
Y Dec 1951 Kensas City,lo 0 Woes Bolloon
0 Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TVPE OF OBSERVATION 5. FUssiuy Suvesn
1), 12 .
Local BE 8 Ground-Visuel O Ground-Rodor 4 Peabably Alrcroft
Pra “la .
OMY ese eee 0 Air Visuol O Air-Intereapt Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomical
0 Yes DO Probably Astronomicol
B No Civilian . 0 Possibly Astronomical :
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BF Other LUOULETOTHIT DATS
o rien Dota for Eveluation
[#] nknown
1 minute 1 ome
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Police officer observed B-34 in SW flight at Insufficient, data,
10,000 ft. Observed object moving NU at
alt higher than a/c. Cbject ir sight one
rninute, transparent, gave off metialic shecn,
Winds from SW to Wi, '70 knots. Report in
newspaper article,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28940397

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Craft and vessels

B-36

Places

Kansas CityKansas City, MOMO

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19511951-12-01

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