Oblong, IllinoisOctober 1958

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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 Oblong, Illinois in October 1958. The full case file (6 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 34.

Reported location

Oblong, Illinois

Date of incident

October 1958

State / country

IL / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
i. DATE ’ LOCATION GE 0 I CONCLUSIONS
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: 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION :
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION * NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Piizians oa Fe
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10 mins seven not given 3 Re ER PA EN RSA
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One rnd, silver obj w/a dark center Believed to be parhelia,
| & six smaller solid discs clustered
around the larger in a ring dormatioi. :
Several of the smaller discs moved
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28980792

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Places

Illinois Oblong, IL

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-10-01