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Case FileNARA NAID 28965644 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Palm Desert, CaliforniaMay 1956

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Palm Desert, California in May 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 25.

Reported location

Palm Desert, California

Date of incident

May 1956

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Loon) nt ree XX Ground-Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar a BN osbably Avrerofy
GMT 17/07 157 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar BX XPossibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS §. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yes O Probobly Astronomicol
Xo Civilian O Possibly Astromomicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0, Othe
0 Insuificient Date for Evaluation y
S 0 Unknown
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS fi
One round object, the size of a pea Concur with the opinion of
held at arm's length, yellow, in lev 1 the reporting officer that
flight heading west. this sighting was possibly
caused by an aircraft.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28965644

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