Kansas City, MissouriDecember 1957

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, Missouri in December 1957. 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 31.

Reported location

Kansas City, Missouri

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

MO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

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: 1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
QO Wos Balloon
: 21 December 1957 Kansas City, Missouri O Probably Balloon
"| 3. oATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION $ Fessiity Bellosn |
i GoGaRiiL- ot na Es Ground: Vi sual O Greund-Radar a Probably Airer ai | !
Gut 22/03102 0 Ain Visual 0 AircIntercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS o u O Was Astronomical
3 O Yes 8 Agi Ationeniedl
XDNo Civilian ossibly Astronomica
2 RS RI TE Tl oo Ey Se yoy Ty ee i SDE Ter Teer eee BR Er Sr SR ASR es]

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (THY | ER A VENTS |
3 Insufficient Data for Evaluetion

10 minutes one | | unknown hel ca

: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING B COMMENTS yaa
: One object round, size of dime, changed Due to lack of information in
\ colors from red to green to blue, obj report this will have to be the
; faded fm sight, insufficient data class,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28976241