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Case FileNARA NAID 28964600 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

North Platte, NebraskaJanuary 1956

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 North Platte, Nebraska in January 1956. 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 24.

Reported location

North Platte, Nebraska

Date of incident

January 1956

State / country

NE / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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‘I. DATE ~ | 2. LOCATION ; 12. CONCLUSIONS FT EE
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«| 18 January 3968 North Platte, Nebraska |g probably Bellon - :
|» oATE-TiME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION o Hi Fagsiyy Balighy al
Cf teed — EEround- Visual 'O Ground-Radar | pred hid 0 BAT ue |
GMT 18/23452 N a D Air Visual a Ait-Intercept Radar -|O Possibly Aircraft : ol

S. PHOTOS . SOURCE i di MX Was Astronomical : Venus
OP .0Y roba stronomica |
Xf : Bee | Civilian a BE ropbb stig :
© | 9+ LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF QBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 JE LAPS Pepe A Ree ie Lo |
5 descendin 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation i
"1 _ two hours | one | (out of Sight) Unknown ¢
©" |10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : : 11. COMMENTS Sen fio, t
~~ | Round in middle, rods sticking out, Duration and motion to west as |
Ye size of baseball, silver color, well as distorted appearance
. +] yellow and greem colors coming out glven object indicate observatic
| at top, no sound, of astronomical body. Any planet

: on ecliptic from 22h to 24h with
: magnitude of -1 would conform to

ert characteristics of this observa-

i tion. Venus was at 22h 10', mag

: -3.4, 3
2 |
a ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
: 5
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964600

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