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Case FileNARA NAID 29001047 · T1206 Roll 48

Project Blue Book Case File

Sioux City, IowaJune 1963

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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 Sioux City, Iowa in June 1963. The full case file (6 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 48.

Reported location

Sioux City, Iowa

Date of incident

June 1963

State / country

IA / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 48

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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CER PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
§- 1. DATE | LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
3 : 0 Was Ball
1 9 Jun 63 Sioux City, Iowa | Oo aa abl Ee
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Gl (Fosbly balloon
1 Ay PE Pe a CS a CE WX Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar g Ran eal croft |
2 cmTi0 03452 0 Air Visuol O Air-Intercept Radar |D Possibly Aircraft
© | 3. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomicel
NE O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical a
3 © No civilian O Possibly Astronomical
"| 7. LENGTH OP OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE B Other_Satellite BCHO T
A s taut cient Dato for Evaluation
¢ [5-30 min one NE fils
© [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING HY 11. COMMENTS
# [ircular object size of large star observed Duration of the stopping not reported
' lin straight flight to the NE at uniform however the word seemed to stop was
5 speed. Object then seemed to stop NE of the used, therefore it is assumed that this
. Eity. ; could have been an illusion. The satellitsg
EE ECHO I was over Sioux City at O346Z 5 of
1 the city at 62 deg elevation heading i
4 NE. Flight, description of the object
| = and duration are consistant with the
E analysis of this object as ECHO I.
E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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