Lake Shelton, WashingtonJune 1961

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Lake Shelton, Washington in June 1961. The full case file (5 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 42.

Reported location

Lake Shelton, Washington

Date of incident

June 1961

State / country

WA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
ee ————————— epost ees te ee ea a ci
1. DATE 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS
/ \ he 1 Al Lake S LC 1, lashineton Ie Vas Balloen
J Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROLD ———— — ——————————————— CE Bl hE atts ates ~la Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME SROUP 4. TYPE OF CBSERVATION
—- F Ww. A pu
3 | Local ms A RR NEO 0 Ground-Vi sual (8) Ground-Radar | = P rot 72 ft
po i ODGoNY Alrcral
» \ i | Fr H fase y eval
CM [—=£/ “elie te BEES rer A te ST OPO LL | 0 AirVisuval 0 Air-Intercopt Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
3 3. PHOTOS é. SOURCE | 3 Was Astronomical
CZ Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
5 No Civilizn E Possibly Astronomical |
7. LENGTH OF C33ZRVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. course | &< Other _Invergion Mpa
| | O lasufficisnt Dora for Evaluation
15 minu 3 | on il {0 Unknown
ESR I NOR ie HER !
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Circular disc, small star like , with whit, Witness stated that the objsct r mained
center and mar small green lirshts around a. in Tie same general area and at the samd «
uitside a2preared ab ap roxdantely 30 de | Lle¥ation , yet disaj red | ind
above the horizon, Moved slishtlv Bast. | trees, In spite of this inconsistancy
. . . . : 1.1 $3 4 - 2 - + 1.1 !
iDCeareaq * ¢ r0ln : opserv a R,d8 BX od 2 LLG aS 1 LEC
: 1d in dis ce an i] red behind tres. fro he intehse subsidence : racdiatibn
inversion present in the Pacific owt! |
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ATIC FORM 329 (R2V 24 32P 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28993034

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Places

Lake Shelton, WA Washington

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-06-01