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Case FileNARA NAID 28983436 · T1206 Roll 36

Project Blue Book Case File

Minot AFS, North DakotaJune 1959

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 Minot AFS, North Dakota in June 1959. 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 36.

Reported location

Minot AFS, North Dakota

Date of incident

June 1959

State / country

ND / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE ies I LOCATION Ei | 12. CONCLUSIONS CHEE
0 ‘as Bajloon
3 Jan 59 | 11e WS. Nor: nyo {1 Probably Bolloon
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E 3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF UBSERVATION © Possibly Balloon
E : hog ; pa 2 : 0 Was Aircraft
4 TE net Re 2 J Cround-VYisual 0 CGround-Radar lo Probobly Aircraft
lL FAR rd i O Air Visuel 0 Air-Intercept Radar |0 Possibly Aircraft
| LP PHOTCS 2 i 6. SOURCE Te EE (m] Was Astronomical
O Yes | 0 « Probably Astronomical || +,
i : . 0 No | Tit Bor A oh 00 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF O35ERVATION i 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ClO THE perianal a FR EL
| 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
: Ells } : ; 0 Unknown
TERRE STR RI  S TT COMMENTS, re Ean SRG RE ET
m4, light green obd, smaller than a dine Probably a 3
Gne obj ber broke into three separat 0.18
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