govweird/archive
Case FileNARA NAID 28983058 · T1206 Roll 36

Project Blue Book Case File

Over Tube City, ArizonaApril 1959

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 Over Tube City, Arizona in April 1959. 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 36.

Reported location

Over Tube City, Arizona

Date of incident

April 1959

State / country

AZ / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
% ’
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE | 2. LOCATION ie a RE
i 50 cE & fd ie 3 Vas Balioon
> Ap bh Oy Ya frizon O Probably Ballcon
Coen Ee LR a ed eR Se ee LT Ps A LT CRS RC OE BRITE RL ea EBERT a Re URE A Re te [om JAAP CRY I =
3. DATE-TIMEZ GROUP . | % TYPE OF 0BSERVATION GS Fossibly, Dalloon
Thal ae ee LR TE Grande i SU] QO Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
~ \ c Probably Aircraft
& Grea CC) 7 del Ti 2 | 0 Air-Vizuol OQ Air-Intercept Radar d Possibly Aircraft
53 PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomical
0 Yas 0 Probobly Astronomical
GiNo Rs Ea hs he = t O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION “12. NUMBER OF G3JECTS | SH CBR Eh eh Othe sa le
! { 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation |
So ; | ; 3 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING HER ERE TE YT i SN a ye Sn
appear as one obj. Ih i a an :
i
Lad ee Cee Ted RN he Te
ATIC FORM 379 (RLV 26 ITP 52)
/ 5

Use ← → keys to navigate · scans hosted by the U.S. National Archives

Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28983058

Connected across the archive

Craft and vessels

B-47

Places

ArizonaOver Tube City, AZ

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19591959-04-01

Related case files