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Case FileNARA NAID 28998359 · T1206 Roll 46

Project Blue Book Case File

Kansas City, MissouriJuly 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, Missouri in July 1962. 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 46.

Reported location

Kansas City, Missouri

Date of incident

July 1962

State / country

MO / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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p PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; O Was Belloon i
; 22 dul 1562 Kansas City, Missouri a Sot 14 a (
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION doped |
: ELEY § : Was Aircraft
RE y 3 i * a :
ET ERS CATATE Bo BR BS Visual O Ground-Radar QO Probably Aircraft
/ “1 OMT a Aid VR suol OQ Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
FE 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE QO Was Astronomical
Q Yes O Probably Astronomical
4 a No Civitian O Possibly Astronomical
i SY 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Id BINS eal ia iig |
TO Insufficient Data for Evaluation} | |
: . wa O Unknown
i ; Ee : GREE ok
aE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
; Fiiht noviag ob) at o-1u:mi alt Stimations by Llu year oid boy wb
: (gSsinaca) movin YOR U-04,UWUU mpn He lpteresied in AStronomys No
i sgfamatce), Ousarved during noon duration rpid, Slow enough to pick |
: ihRErval 10) Wo uk teleschba, Abie toidp Lo scope however, too fast fof
| SRG AER pA FERAL Wi IX, die detalticd observation, LCase consider
rapid snlovement, Obj disappeared gd dnmutiicleat dara, In aii pro
Eo to clo Dank near horizon, Bright ibabiiity it was a meteor sighting] |
|  Biuilsh walte size astinaced at HOU However, not cviassed w/ nmetors sigcl
| Ll fda Not like any meteor previousgy //9 ys2rver apparentiy familiar
J dio A With ovis of this nature,
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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