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Case FileNARA NAID 28963168 · T1206 Roll 23

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St Edward and BattleCreek, NebraskaAugust 1955

Unidentified

Summary

The OCR quality of this case file is too poor to support an accurate summary. Pages 3 through 7 are largely illegible, containing fragmented text, garbled character sequences, and no coherent narrative. While the cover sheet (page 1-2) indicates two sightings near St. Edward and BattleCreek, Nebraska, in August 1955, and notes that the Air Force evaluated them as "probably balloon" or "possibly balloon," the underlying details, witness statements, investigation findings, and any supporting analysis cannot be reliably extracted from the available text.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, totaling 7 pages.

Reported location

St Edward and BattleCreek, Nebraska

Date of incident

August 1955

State / country

NE / US

Page count

7 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 7
Transcribed text
,
idee » PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
l. 8t Edward, Nebraska D  Wos Balloon
| 12 Aug 55 2. BattleCreek, Nebraska BX Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TINE GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION € Possibly Balloon

; Ey Por r—— $B Ground- Vi sval O Ground-Rodar 2 Probes Kiveroh

oMTL. 12/ 23007 2. 13/ 01067 O Air Visuel Q Air-Intercept Radar | Possibly Airerakt
5. PHOTOS » SOUR O Wos Astronomical

| 0 Yes 0 Probably ibs

+0 Ne civilian O Possibly Astronomico

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 ee

1. unk 1 one ¥ stationary B Pirsbbh dd Dota for Evaluation
|Z. fifteen minutes 2. one 2. stationary
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :

1. Oblong, silver, had a tail to one side, no Descriptive of balloon obs rvation.
sound. Very limited data. Duration and |
[7+ One, round, red ang green obj, size of head wind info misssing. Case evaluated

of pin held at arms length was seen to remai as possvle balloon.
i stationary for period of 15 mins. Seen thru
three power telescope. Obj appeared very
bright.
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