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Case FileNARA NAID 28971199 · T1206 Roll 28

Project Blue Book Case File

Neosho, MissouriAugust 1957

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 Neosho, Missouri in August 1957. The full case file (5 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 28.

Reported location

Neosho, Missouri

Date of incident

August 1957

State / country

MO / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
1. DATE : : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
| : D Wos Balloon {
19 August 1957 Neosho, Missouri Spay. Sian
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION ossibly Balloon
0 Was Aircraft
ee Ca DX Bround- Visual O Ground-Raeder QO Probably Aircroft
GM 19/1410%2 O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rador O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomicol 3
QO Yes O Probably Astronomical |
8 No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BON te
BX Insufficient Data for Evaluotion | f
p 2 ¢ : 0 Unknewn !
3 to 4 minutes one NE then Tp Ee Ed
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Nie
One round object about the size of a/c Wind info from Springfield, Mo |
at very high altitude, aluminum color, indicates motion should have &
making a whirring sound comparable to been to South and East, Possible $d
a dynamo, Appeared to hover, then went balloon, No association with Fe
straight up. Motion to North and East, noise, Insufficient data to i
No air traffic indicated. conclude,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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