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Case FileNARA NAID 28990451 · T1206 Roll 41

Project Blue Book Case File

Petersburg, AlaskaDecember 1960

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 Petersburg, Alaska in December 1960. 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 41.

Reported location

Petersburg, Alaska

Date of incident

December 1960

State / country

AK / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 41

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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AEE PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
1. DATS 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
12 D=se 00 Patersburg, Alaska 0 Yas Bolloon
01 Probobly Balloon
EP ————— EE BY Tr VJ yao yyy are a ne 8 I SY PY Holl
3 DATETIME CRCuP 4. TYPE OF GRSERVATION Possibly lo non
NL UU ————— 1 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 2 a 0 ap od
- J Now Y 4 x BS Binocy lar S ~ ae ot 14 pride
See ANFUSSRS i! Aim Visual : a Air-Intarcant Radnor L oss) y rera ?
S. PHOTOS ER CREE i i of are ES SL 0 Vas Astronomical
Yes 1 Probably Astranomizol
7 Na Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8, NUMBER OF 08JECT5 | 9. COURSE ER TTI obit SI
0 Insufficient Dara for Cvoluation
) nia ona SSE J Unknown
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10, BRISE SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS
Object size and color of Venus; no sound or satellite track requested, however not
tail moving from 00° elev in sky to 45° elev answered. Case classed as satellite
oa heading of SSE. Direct flight path with no without confirmation as this object has
Caneuvers, all characteristics of satellite in orbith
ATIC FORM 229 (REV 25 3KEP 52)
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