Sweetwater, TexasOctober 1958

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Sweetwater, Texas in October 1958. 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 34.

Reported location

Sweetwater, Texas

Date of incident

October 1958

State / country

TX / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD \
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS i 1
5 ws SS O Was Balloon . :
5 FARES iio Ee a Sweetwater, Texas 0 Probably Balloon :
; 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION @Posyibly Bolloan :
TUT FgeRe lg CORRE Oe il 3 Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar a Mas Morph tr 3 ;
§ TV ra DPI ERY Tp AR SE O Air Visudl O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft . i
. Q Yes : OD Probably Astronomica ;
a No civilian OD Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Oo Other i
O Insufficient Doto for Evaluation A
2 : O Unknown 2
S18 secouds one Yoo d i
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ; ; §
Rnd, veliowish red obj, size of Description & duration is 5
basketball w/trail of fire, growing typical of a meteor. :
smaller & smaller, 2
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) /
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28980680

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Places

Sweetwater, TX Texas

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-10-01