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Case FileNARA NAID 28988164 · T1206 Roll 39

Project Blue Book Case File

Sioux Falls, South DakotaAugust 1960

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 Sioux Falls, South Dakota in August 1960. 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 39.

Reported location

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Date of incident

August 1960

State / country

SD / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 39

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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4 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

1 a L2 < 0 Wes Balloon

11 August, 1360 Sioux Falls, South Dakota QO Probably Balloon

J 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION CW wen

: 0 Was Aiicroft

FO —— O Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodor O Probably Aireroft

GMT 12/03502Z x5 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircroft

1 5. PHOTOS . O Woes Astronomical

f O Yes O Probably Astronomicel

i ao Military O Possibly Astronemicel

i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Gx Other etree |
| 3 Insufficient Dota for Evgluotion
i 3 minutes One Southerly O Unknown

o 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

4 wnite circular object of varying intensity Request for Sate'lite HYXIX data not

i 3 X brilliance of Jupiter, no scunu or tail, answered, Without track information

; ccserved due West of 4/C just a& ove the noripo..object cannot be classed as a Satelli
i Apneared to move South at the same elevation case. Listed as Insufficient Lala,
anu wen. out for perious of 5-10 seconds,

Reappeared moving South with the intensity
. weakening, Total observation duration 3 min,
Spee. believed faster th n manned A/c and
» thought tc be Satellite of Missile by the
oksa:ver,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988164

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