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Case FileNARA NAID 28963900 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Storm Lake, IowaOctober 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 Storm Lake, Iowa in October 1955. The full case file (4 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 24.

Reported location

Storm Lake, Iowa

Date of incident

October 1955

State / country

IA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
1 | |
a PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
E 1. DATE - 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS :
4 ’ 0 Wes Balloon
qT 10 Oct $+ 01D ake Ow (w] Probably Balloon
. 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ay eon |
EB ! ; 0 Wos Aircraft :
§ Eaegliirnnieii it Su ede Ag for Br XGround-Visuel O Ground-Radar a] Probably Aircroft . |
i GMT 11/00512 : 0 AirVYisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
] FE 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was Astronomicdptar/ Planet
FE 0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
i : 20 No civilian IC Possibly Astronomical
i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION ~ | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Q Otherto el ; |
i 3 0 Insufficient Data for Evalugiion } |
. : : 0° Unknown ot !
1 1 hr 4 min 1 Eto W& Wto E : |
© [lo. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS food
: 0  |Red-green-white ob}, no sound or trail, faded. |Possibly star/planet. Exact positional ; |: 14
No a
i 3a }
4 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $7) :
EF : |
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