North Dakota, January 1960January 1960

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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 North Dakota, January 1960 in January 1960. 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 37.

Reported location

North Dakota, January 1960

Date of incident

January 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. COMCLUSIONS
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| 14% danvary, 1960 North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming |B Vios Balloon
i ka 2 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 3. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ress Balloon
8 y 4 / % 2 Was Aircraft
SA et ra 7 Ground- Visual Q Ground-Rodor 1 Probably Aircraft
GMT 01252 i ih 8 Air-Vi sual B' Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE ‘tf Was Astronomical [lotoor |
C Yas 0 Probebly Astronomical
0 Ne dilitary and Ulivilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF CBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (ro JAE 0) yy SANE HO A HC Ca
0 losufficient Dara for Eveluation
Not atated one Not given 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS |
5 ¢ CRA ; pr Juject reported as a meteor 54 oht in.
Flaming object pensrally desnribed sg graan Hon fr glist ia A Sb ERE
? » ae no information whdah wsnd A BL RIE,
bir a large number of persons both Military 428 no inlormation which woulda tznd to
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and Civilian from locations ranging from i he SERN Fr On Hr MEAS)
Duluth, Minnesota to Cheyenne Wyoming. fast Nan a meveor obsarvation.
of the information was put on a taps record-
ing at March AFB, Calif, however little info :
could be gained as most of it was garbled,
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28985684

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-01-01