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Case FileNARA NAID 28985706 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

Lakota, North DakotaJanuary 1960

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Lakota, North Dakota in January 1960. 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 37.

Reported location

Lakota, North Dakota

Date of incident

January 1960

State / country

ND / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSICNS
/ a pia, 1360 SEE ROA Bani a {1 Vos Balloon
Ff LETAATY, (S) padadid, «Ou J IU OU Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Fur eas By Belibon
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5 Etat a Vj or O Was Aircraft
3 Loca se te re Ground. Visual 0 Ground-Rodar O Probably Aircraft
i Ot A A ER 0 At Visual (0 Alr-lntarcopt Radar | Possibly Aircraft
I 5. PHOTOS 4. SOURCE 1. Was Astronomical LoL 20 T
y 4 0 Yes {3 Probably Astronomical
: BNe Cava liian J 0 Possibly Astronomical
J 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ufo) § 3) Tp Re EE CE eT Ho SE
i 0 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
3 5-10 s=2econde one NY descending SHELL
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Object described in gr=zat detail for an enaral overall deseription withow
observation lasting 5-10 seconds. Crescent tre detail conforms to a meteor ;
shaped object with horns pointing uo. Color observation. Luration of the sighting
vellowish~grean or aqua. ompennage on left hprn and motion is consistant with a slow
of pear shaped light. Large cone surmcunted moving meteor. The Lycids stream
y a shaft between the horrs of the crescenv, cceurs batwaen 12-23 January and is
] Sright light emintated from the object in a slow moviar evening shower. [t is
| it's entirety. First observad low on the possible that this was a meteor from
horizon and faded into ground fog. this stream.
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