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Case FileNARA NAID 28966025 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Shawnee, KansasJune 1956

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 Shawnee, Kansas in June 1956. 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 25.

Reported location

Shawnee, Kansas

Date of incident

June 1956

State / country

KS / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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dh Re PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : |
1. DATE § LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
‘0 Was Boll
28 June 1956 Shawnee, Kansas a Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION —|2 Possibly Balloon
Local 2902502 againat XB Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Rador a patholo VIER
eMT__29/0300Z =~ DO Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar | 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS » SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
OVYes O Probably Astronomicol
XMo Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENSTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE I OI eo em
y G5 minutes Both O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
: 2. 21.3 minutes one ea sighting S to N 8 Unknown
1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING © |1. COMMENTS :
Two sightings. Objects appeared round]; Concur with opinion of the rpt-
in front with tapering back. The size| ing officer that both of these |
of a quarter ~t arms length, Appeared| sightings were in all probabilit}
dull against sky. Objects appeared caused by aircraft, |
i to emit flame. The second object had
E light similar to a/c blinker light,
3 Both object flew from S to N.
] ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28966025

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