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Case FileNARA NAID 28970886 · T1206 Roll 28

Project Blue Book Case File

SW of Bakersfield, CaliforniaJuly 1957

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 SW of Bakersfield, California in July 1957. 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 28.

Reported location

SW of Bakersfield, California

Date of incident

July 1957

State / country

CA / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3
Transcribed text
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 30 July 1957

2. LOCATION: SW of Bakersfield, California

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local [illegible] 31/0315Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual, Air-Visual (checkboxes present)

5. SOURCE: Civilian

6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 3

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: unk

8. COURSE: three objects, round, size of basketball, color orange & pink, in triangular pattern, obj moved straight up.

9. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: three objects, round, size of basketball, color orange & pink, in triangular pattern, obj moved straight up.

10. PHOTOS: No, Yes (checkboxes)

11. CONCLUSIONS: (checkboxes for Balloon, Aircraft, Astronomical, Insufficient Data for Evaluation, Unknown)

12. COMMENTS: Insufficient data for analysis.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28970886

Connected across the archive

Organizations

8TH AIR DIV DEF NORTON AFE CALIFAIR DEFENSE COMMAND ENT AFE COLOAIR TECH INTEL CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON AFE OHIODIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE HQ USAF WASHHQ RCC ABD JEFPRY

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

CaliforniaSouthwest of BakersfieldSW of BakersfieldSW of Bakersfield, CASW of Bakersfield, California

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

19571957-07-0130 July 195731 July 57

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