Project Blue Book Case File
Randall, IowaMay 1957
Summary
The OCR on pages 1-6 is too degraded to produce a reliable summary of a substantive case. While the cover sheet identifies an unknown evaluation for a May 1957 sighting in Randall, Iowa, the written details describing the observation itself, including what was seen, duration, weather conditions, and investigative findings, are illegible or severely garbled across the full text of the case file. Without readable primary source material from the core narrative sections (pages 17-24 contain Air Force questionnaire responses, but these too contain heavy OCR errors that make precise reconstruction impossible), a summary that adheres to accuracy standards cannot be written.
The case involved one round blue object observed through binoculars for three hours in daylight, according to faint markings on the cover sheet; however, the specific details of the incident, witness information, weather conditions, Air Force analysis, and final assessment cannot be reliably extracted from this OCR'd text.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, 45 pages as microfilm T1206, Roll 27.
Reported location
Randall, Iowa
Date of incident
May 1957
State / country
IA / US
Page count
45 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 27