Kansas City, MissouriSeptember 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 September 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 29.

Reported location

Kansas City, Missouri

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

MO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

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I. DATE 7 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
‘3 “ | O Wos Bolloon
: ant emhe - CY ; A O Probably Bolleon
" D Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION :
O Was Aireroft :
| EE MX Ground-Vi sual O Ground-Reder OQ Probably Aircraft :
| _omM3.2671040Z | 0 AisVisel O AirIntercopt Rodar |D Possibly Aireroft
S. PHOTC : . SOU O Was Astronomicol
O Yes O Probebly Astronomicel
XIX No Military O Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CE OTRO OR STE
4 icin Dato for Evelueation |
nown
10-15 seconds one NE
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
Two white objects with trail (second Probably a/c, but cannot conclude
light could have been tail or trail), | because of insufficient data,
: Possible meteor.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 32) | ;
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971803