Kansas City, Mo., July 1960July 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 Kansas City, Mo., July 1960 in July 1960. The full case file (6 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 38.

Reported location

Kansas City, Mo., July 1960

Date of incident

July 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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¢ 1. DATE hid 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS i
: 11 Jul €0 Isdopmepneend Kansas City, lo. QO Wes Bolloon |
un QO Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION TUNIS. were
2120 QO Wos Aiicraft
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Local Be slain B Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodor @ Probably Aircraft
g GMT 12,03207 0 Air Visuol O Air-Intercept Rador |O Possibly Aircraft |
2 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
: O Yes Gg ODO Probably Astrenomicol
| : 0 Ne Military O Possibly Astronomical
B 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 8 DNOr inion
g O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
4 3 ll three SSE - 1"  W.
i : ER CAC Lg CRS REF Tio MY RELI 1 AT Rh eT SHO CAN BADE, 5 PNR TSM ARE Co Par LRT CES EGTRRA TART) PIS RAED FUERA ER SE TITRA PO FEL PU GUUS EPS TE Ch CY RU Fee
| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS |
i iitness observed obdact with general des- Observation has elements of a/2 sighting
: waption of netecr at 2105 called local AFR present, Lovel flight, red lights, speed
f to report sighting. Officer receiving report | duration of sighting, etc. No informatiog
nvcerved cecond sighting of three red glowing] te indicete that this was other than an
| objects, in trail, levsl flight fading over a/c sighting.
: norizon in 3 min to 5S5Z, Negative local a/c
| report,
ATIC FORM 329 (RPV 26 SEP §2)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28987735

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-07-01