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Case FileNARA NAID 28999655 · T1206 Roll 47

Project Blue Book Case File

Moorehead, MinnesotaOctober 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 Moorehead, Minnesota in October 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 47.

Reported location

Moorehead, Minnesota

Date of incident

October 1962

State / country

MN / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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b 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

g O Was Balloon !
4 29 October 1962 oorehead, M&nnesota By Reno Balen

4 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION SoA ga
: Eg eatii a Sata a Ss CL el CX Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar ot Ebay Atserats
£ GMT 29/2200Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
3 5. PHOTOS 3 TRE LL TE EE GT | hy Gren Re
: O Yes O Probobly Astronomical |
8 XbNo ivilian ‘ O Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE  |O Other | |
8 BX utc srs Data for Eveluation i
'H 0 Unknown !
4 1-2 minutes one ENE
y 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS.
4 | Witness could not describe obj, only | Total duration assumed to includs
4 that it was comparable to a small the obsvation of the smoke. Beligw
F a/c in size, had blue white flames to be meteor or decay by the

3 and a lot of smoke, Obj was believed | investigating officers. No decayg
: to hit ground in the ENE flight had for this date associated with
i slow descent, the time of sighting. Possibly

E a daylight meteor; however, the

F data is not sufficient for this

f evaluation, Case listed as

| insufficient data.

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FE " ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999655

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