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Case FileNARA NAID 28949101 · T1206 Roll 14

Project Blue Book Case File

Lathrop Wells, Nev., August 1952August 1952

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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 Lathrop Wells, Nev., August 1952 in August 1952. 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 14.

Reported location

Lathrop Wells, Nev., August 1952

Date of incident

August 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 14

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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executed 90-120 degree turn, began gentle
climb with sudden acceleration, then extinguished
leaving blue-white c.ntrail. Contrail extin- i
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28949101

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