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Case FileNARA NAID 28975594 · T1206 Roll 31

Project Blue Book Case File

Rector, ArkansasDecember 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 Rector, Arkansas in December 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 31.

Reported location

Rector, Arkansas

Date of incident

December 1957

State / country

AR / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
L O Vos Bolloon
December 19357 Rector, Arkansas O Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloen _
(yp Ae SNF rr 2XGround- Visual O Ground-Rodar g Probably Abrerafh : |
GMT 02/0545Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS : . UR O Was Astrenomical
Q Yes Q Probobly Astronomical
%:0 Ne Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomieol
7. LENGTM OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BOM. i
: kX XlInsufficiant Data for Evaluation
: X 0 Unknown
20 minutes one W by SW
10. BRIE® SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1). COMMENTS :
Round, white object, larger than a star|, Azinuth & elevation not given
Object was slowly descending; as it making it impossible to prop-
neared the earth its brightness faded erly evaluate this sighting,
to a reddish or orange glow and became Object possibly astronomical
invisible, As light changed from its object setting, :
brightness to a reddish glow, it was
observed that there scouzd Lo be some
sort of explosive material causing this
change tn color, Object appeared to
burn out.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28975594

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