Pasco, WashingtonJune 1954

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 Pasco, Washington in June 1954. The full case file (2 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 21.

Reported location

Pasco, Washington

Date of incident

June 1954

State / country

WA / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 5 June 1954

2. LOCATION: Pasco, Washington

12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkboxes] Insufficient Data for Evaluation

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local: 06/0732(N)
GMT: [illegible]

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [checked] Ground-Visual, [unchecked] Ground-Radar, [unchecked] Air-Visual, [unchecked] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS: [checked] No

6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: [blank]

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 2

9. COURSE: [blank]

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Shaped like half moon. Two white objects which combined to form one fireball, 1/2 size of moon. [illegible] 5 deg elevation. Disappeared slowly into horizon.

11. COMMENTS: Insufficient data.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28958479

Connected across the archive

People

Gail Peck

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Pasco Pasco, WA Pasco, Washington Washington

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1954 1954-06-01 5 June 1954

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