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Case FileNARA NAID 28998502 · T1206 Roll 46

Project Blue Book Case File

Liberal, KansasAugust 1962

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 Liberal, Kansas in August 1962. 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 46.

Reported location

Liberal, Kansas

Date of incident

August 1962

State / country

KS / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS .
: 1 Was Balloon
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4 TYPE OF C3SERVATION uk.
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Local L, Li Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 1 Probably Aircraft
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OMT i AL LBNL Eine. | SABI Yisvol 0 Air-intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft teors ;
5. PHOTOS | 6. SOURCE 0 © Was Astronomical Jit Lor
C Yes 0 Probobly Astronomical
No Civilian 1 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8, NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE HR 3s) RS RE Rr RA SH on
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14 2 S2CS i ge HER 0 Unknown
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10, BRIZ® SUMmARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
D¥ultiple rpts of objs., Initial rpt 1. Probably meteors.
of blue-green objs moving West at 2s Stationary obi was Jupiter. Mog
terrific speed in sight for 3 secs, at this time was 2.4 1t's max3-
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