Project Blue Book Case File
Springfield, Ill, April 1948April 1948
Summary
# Summary
The OCR quality of this case file is too degraded to reliably extract the core details of the sighting. While the metadata indicates a Springfield, Illinois sighting in April 1948, and pages 2 and 5 contain readable correspondence from Air Force officials discussing the report, the original witness account and investigative findings are not legible in the scanned images provided.
Page 2 shows a reply from a Colonel in the Air Force's Analysis Division suggesting the object might be a "Fireballs" or "Lolides" (celestial phenomena), and noting that without more detailed information, the identity of the object could not be established. The letter mentions that further research at a public library might confirm or deny this hypothesis. However, the specifics of what was observed, by whom, and under what circumstances are not readable in the available OCR text.
The full case file, comprising 7 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.
Reported location
Springfield, Ill, April 1948
Date of incident
April 1948
State / country
? / XX
Page count
7 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 2