Project Blue Book Case File
Kodiak, AlaskaApril 1949
Summary
I cannot write a reliable summary of this case. The OCR quality of these seven pages is too severely degraded to extract coherent factual details about the sighting itself.
On the few pages where text is partially legible (especially pages 1 and 6), I can make out fragmentary references to Kodiak, Alaska in April 1949, and isolated phrases like "greenish-blue" color and "1500 mph" speed, but the surrounding context remains illegible or incoherent. Critical information such as witness identity, precise time of sighting, detailed description of the object's behavior, weather conditions, radar data, and the Air Force's investigative conclusions cannot be reliably extracted.
To honor the site's commitment to journalistic accuracy and primary-source integrity, I must decline to speculate or invent narrative framing to fill these gaps.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, 7 pages.
Reported location
Kodiak, Alaska
Date of incident
April 1949
State / country
AK / US
Page count
7 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 4