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Case FileNARA NAID 28965094 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Manatowish Waters, WisconsinMarch 1956

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 Manatowish Waters, Wisconsin in March 1956. 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 24.

Reported location

Manatowish Waters, Wisconsin

Date of incident

March 1956

State / country

WI / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
4

i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
4 DRE EE ORATION. so oo 115. CONCLUSIONS. os]

4 : 7 180 Was Balloon

= 5 March 1956 Manatowish Waters, Wisconsipg FioBably Balloon :
y 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon

: ligcal i MXKGround- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 telah LB

2 GMT 06/02507 na 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft

i 5. PHOTOS é. SOURCE tx Was Astronomical Vo LCS

4 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical

4 Osbtg Civilian (GOC) 0 Possibly Astronomical

: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 1 150] 01517 5 SA ooh ns es
Be O Insufficient Data for Evaluation

H : STE 0 Unknown

| Foes 20 mpBes 00 lo oBe oo ll descenddng oc 0 0

: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Ee One round object, 50 times the size This sighting was generated by
of a star, bright whtie, hazy around the planet Venus, The descrip- |:
i the edges, First seen at an azimuth of tion of the object in the sky

; 270 dgr and at an angle of elevation is the location of the planet

: of 45 dgrs, Disappeared at 270 dgr at |an //Venus, and the lack of

angle of elevation of thirty dgrs. radar contact would seem to defini-
4 Fadedbut of sight, No radar contact, tely establish this object as

7 Venus,

J ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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