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Case FileNARA NAID 28969518 · T1206 Roll 27

Project Blue Book Case File

Ogden, UtahApril 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 Ogden, Utah in April 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 27.

Reported location

Ogden, Utah

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

UT / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 27

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
: A) BE)
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; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
l. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: : Si : ; 2 Was Balloon
(Eo LO Apy Ed. E997 i Qgden, Utah... 0 Probably Bolloon
| | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
“ol “1G Vi Poo O Wos Aircraft
Loco wee ST ix Ground- Visual Ground-Radar OQ Probably Aircraft
CMT 11/03307 0 Air- Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |B Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 4. SOURCE SO TR
0 Yes HES 0 Probably Astronomical
AX No Civilian & Military DO Possibly Astronomical
| | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE DO Other. :
G/R 23 minutes BO Insufficient Data for Evaluation
SHVA1 1 vy == . palpi ¥- VE) TE Oo Unk nown
G/V 10 to 15 mins one East to West
© 10. BRIER SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One white object with red halo. Object | CONAD forecast center reported thal
moved from East to West, stopped, then [a balloon had escaped from Las
proceeded west, made abrupt 90 dgr turn Vegas, Nevada and was over the :
and preceeded south. Object was seen area of the sighting trailing a ;
: visually and through ground radar for 100 foot steel cable, Descripilon
the times noted above. of sighting and the above indi-
cate that this sighting was caused
by .a balloon,
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 15 SEP 52) y
4 pr ET {CRs GHETTO RR RE PRE Wes a h . ;
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