St Ignace, MichiganJanuary 1955

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 St Ignace, Michigan in January 1955. The full case file (5 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 22.

Reported location

St Ignace, Michigan

Date of incident

January 1955

State / country

MI / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE dee Ne LOCATION TR Bly |
| 0) Yas Balloon
3 January 1955 St rnace. Michicar 0 Probably Balloon
— + January l1doo 1 OL Ignac FT Michigan 15 possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME CROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Local See domes XO Ground- Visual UJ Ground-Rudar 0 ies bp
Any DR/ODRRY oc 1 Air- Visual 0 Air-lntercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 28 Was Astronomical star /
0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical § :
SER ee RIE RE TR Ty 0 Possibly Astronomical plangt
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BY ORY oe a ca ;
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
EL OI NR
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
White light appeared to be hovering Very clear night. Length of
at 1000 feet, No movement or sound, observation and absence of move-
CRL1 Or trall. " ment indicates this to be
astronomical sighthng. Positional
data not included; howsver,
evaluation as astro body consis-
tent with data presented.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28960815

Connected across the archive

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

Michigan St Ignace St Ignace, MI

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1955 1955-01-01