Pesotum, IllinoisApril 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 Pesotum, Illinois 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

Pesotum, Illinois

Date of incident

April 1957

State / country

IL / 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

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 5
4 EET IEE—— |
; 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
3 Was Balloon
; 25 April 1957 Derosumg FT llnean. 0 0 [HoRshaly Balleen
: 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION RESLEYEHSLEEN
21235 y ; t 0 Was Aircraft
ee Se ee Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
GMT 26 [03257 DO Air- Visual O Air-Intercept Rador 0 Possibly Aircraft
5 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicollone t
0 Yes ‘IK Probably Astronomical |
i Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical : :
y 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE EEO phe al esd SE
: 0 ihauiiiciant Data for Evaluation
i : 20 to 25 minutes one Best Ts men
¥ 10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
i One object, round, size of dime, Very probably the Orend-Leland
color bright red. Object had long comet, ;
vhite tail 3 times as long as head. ;
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SZP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28969713

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Illinois Pesotum Pesotum, IL

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1957 1957-04-01