Kansas City, MissouriNovember 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 November 1957. 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 29.

Reported location

Kansas City, Missouri

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

MO / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

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] 1. DATE Ee 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

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3 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ac hse

4 a \ O Wes Aircraft

[| i es a : ~ - El:Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar QO Probably Aircraft :

i CM SB AUSdeR 0 Air~Visuol Q Air-Intercep? Rodor DO Possibly Aircraft

i 5. PHOTOS ) . SOURCE XIX Was Astronomical VE3I2a |
a OQ Yes O Probobly Astronomical

! O-Neo Civilian O Possibly Astronomical

Eo 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BD iotnins

be 0 Insufficient Date for Evaluation |
bE : 0O Unknown

i BIBRGOPNR © & «NG © BS 0 one staticnary |
FE | 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

“© Round object with tail, Object was Star vega at O05 dgr elevation

§ white, tail was blue, size of baseball] 300 dgr azimuth, Lower that rptd

E Tail flushed on and off seeming. to nowever, siill probably the objec!

jo z1low when it flashed off. No sound. observed,

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28973234