N of Carlinville, MissouriOctober 1957

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from N of Carlinville, Missouri in October 1957. 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 29.

Reported location

N of Carlinville, Missouri

Date of incident

October 1957

State / country

MO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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2 : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2
1. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Wos Balloon |
27 October 1957 N of Corlinville, Missouri Q Probably Belleon |
— ee D Possibly Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
“Ov LV: 3 O Was Aircraft
Loco Ne rs DO Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft ;
CM 27/,23007 O Air Visuol O Air-Intercept Radar | © Possibly Aireroft
5. oroe : 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical V 2011S )
O Yes O{ Probably Astronomical
s0:No Civilian ODO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CAR AE AA :
a) | Chri Data for Evaluation
g 2 8) nk No wn
20 minutes one SSW
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
~~ Rectangular object, bright red-orange The position, azimuth and elevatiqgn
moving up & down, but remaining in given are almost precisely the
same general direction, ; location of Venus, While we can-
not account for the rectangular :
| appearance, clouds & other weatherx
: conditions, particularly when
seen through binoculars often
give odd shapes, Everything points
: to planct Venus,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) |
, FAT
E 8 / F

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28972477

Connected across the archive

Places

Missouri N of Carlinville, MO

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-10-01