Montevideo, Uruguay, January 1959January 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 Montevideo, Uruguay, January 1959 in January 1959. The full case file (6 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 35.

Reported location

Montevideo, Uruguay, January 1959

Date of incident

January 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 35

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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I. DATE 2. LOCATION ; 12. CONCLUSIONS
/ 0 Was Bolloon |

Jan 59 Vontevideo, Urugua 0 Probably Balloon

3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
O Was Aircraft
I ms — &X Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rador Q Probably Aircraft
cMT____ not given O Air Visuvel O Air-Intercept Rader |0 Possibly Aircroft
S. TOS JOUR O Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
30 Neo Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE En BF
end Dota for Evaluation
nown /
not stated one Nv
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Rot not translated. Tvailuated Tnsufficient data by CITY,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28981594

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1959 1959-01-01