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Case FileNARA NAID 28961503 · T1206 Roll 22

Project Blue Book Case File

Redwood Valley, Calif., March 1955March 1955

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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 Redwood Valley, Calif., March 1955 in March 1955. 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 22.

Reported location

Redwood Valley, Calif., March 1955

Date of incident

March 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5
Transcribed text
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1. DATE | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
| {3 Was Balloon
Mare 055 ned Te Ny : 00 Probably Balloon
__11 March 1955 1 _Redwood Valley, Calif. 45 shiatiy daleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
| ec] Embed Viel 0 Ground: Radar LR bd HR
MT 12/0047 RR ARRAY ; o Air-Visual : 0 Air-Intercept Radar (x zPossibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE ; 0 Was Astronomical
: 0 Yes 0 Probobly Astronomical
Ko Civilian (GOC Observers) |O Pessibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE : D,Othef momo
i @] [utHclen) Dota for Evaluation
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three minutes one southerly bis
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
1 One, round, silver, object which The fact that the obj sounded
sounded like a jet but which was the | like a jet & the observer's
size of a silver dollar held at descriptions fitting that of
arm's length was observed to be a jet, coupled w/ the fact that
] heading in a southerly direction, a B-47 type aircraft was obser-
’ with "smoke" cmming from it. The obj ved in the area of sighting at
3 faded from sight after about three approximately the same time lead:
] minutes. to the conclusion that this sight-
1 ing was probably the above men-
tioned a/c (B-47).
9 rb sr BAIL. BN EE et Aes SE
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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