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Case FileNARA NAID 28978929 · T1206 Roll 33

Project Blue Book Case File

St Louis, MissouriJuly 1958

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 Louis, Missouri in July 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

St Louis, Missouri

Date of incident

July 1958

State / country

MO / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

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: 13 JUL 58
2. LOCATION: St Louis, Missouri
3. DATE-TIME GROUP: GMT 14/03:15Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual, Ground-Radar (checkboxes)
5. PHOTOS: No
6. SOURCE: Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: not given
8. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Whitish light moving N or NE, then changed to NE & faded fm sight.
9. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
10. COURSE: NE
11. COMMENTS: Believed to be a/c which landed 10 mins after sighting.
12. CONCLUSIONS: Was Balloon, Probably Balloon, Possibly Balloon, Was Aircraft, Probably Aircraft, Possibly Aircraft, Was Astronomical, Probably Astronomical, Possibly Astronomical, Other, Insufficient Data for Evaluation, Unknown (checkboxes)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28978929

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