Rapid City, South Dakota, [ILLEGIBLE]Date unknown

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Rapid City, South Dakota, [ILLEGIBLE] in an undated incident. The full case file (5 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 15.

Reported location

Rapid City, South Dakota, [ILLEGIBLE]

Date of incident

Date unknown

State / country

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Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 15

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28950593

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Programs and code names

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Places

Rapid City, South Dakota

Agencies

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