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Case FileNARA NAID 28979181 · T1206 Roll 33

Project Blue Book Case File

Spring Lake, MichiganAugust 1958

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Spring Lake, Michigan in August 1958. The full case file (3 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 33.

Reported location

Spring Lake, Michigan

Date of incident

August 1958

State / country

MI / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3
Transcribed text
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
2 August 1958

2. LOCATION
Spring Lake, Michigan

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
03/0230Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visua
Air-Visua Ground-Radar
Air-Intercept Radar

5. SOURCE
Civilian

6. PHOTOS
Yes
No

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
30 sec to 1 min

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
Not given

12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Other
Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Red, yellow obj, size of baseball, traveling in a straight path & disappearing all of a sudden.

11. COMMENTS
Insufficient data.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28979181

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