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Case FileNARA NAID 28992101 · T1206 Roll 42

Project Blue Book Case File

Pebble Beach, CaliforniaApril 1961

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 Pebble Beach, California in April 1961. 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 42.

Reported location

Pebble Beach, California

Date of incident

April 1961

State / country

CA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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11 Ap Pebble Beach, California O Wos Balloon
SR or 61 1 ’ 0 Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION W TVW W—-
- L 0 Wos Aircraft
i ROBIN occas H Ground: Visual 0 Ground-Rador 0 Probably Aircraft
aurilAZ0Z Ace 61 0 Air Viwal O Air-Intercept Radar |O Possibly Aircraft :
5. PHOTOS §. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical Jupiter
0 Yes Rik RA Probably Astronomical
BN Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE EE NS Be TDS
b 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Les ne N 0 Unknown
L 25
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
! ved anc areen. incefinable shape; like a giant the direction of mction was zgainst the
5 « anout 3 times normal star, Slightly large wind. 4h a/c would have been over a # 11
Laan rrapeiruit but smaller than a voLiroall] warning area, and snoula nave apoeared|to
Coliect first noticed ies of Pebole Beuch over| pain altitude a3 it moved toward the
water asout 3C deg zoove the horizon, Initial observer, [he plan t Jupiter was in th
observation object assumed stationarv, About position indicated and had a magnitude
2 minutes later the ob‘zct dissprearad to the of =1, The witness procably observed
North, still at 30 deg elevation, the planet Jupiter,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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