Taboga Island & Fort Clayton, C.Z., August 1960August 1960

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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 Taboga Island & Fort Clayton, C.Z., August 1960 in August 1960. 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 39.

Reported location

Taboga Island & Fort Clayton, C.Z., August 1960

Date of incident

August 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 39

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

J MULTIPLE SIGHTING PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
§ I. DATE ° 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; O Wes Bell
| 14 Aug 60 Taboga Island & Fort Clayton,C.Z2. (8 Probably Belloon
] 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 5 Yee ww
] LOH cre ——— of Ground- Visual DO Ground-Rodor - Frebuiy Aver oft
i oMT____15/02452 0 Air Viel O Air-Intercept Rader |O Possibly Aircraft
: 5S. PHOTOS O Was Astronomicol
3 O Yes O Prebobly Astronomical
§ R Ne | Military : A Possibly Astronomicel Arct
a 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BD PINs ia——
E 0 Insufficient Date for Evaluation
BB 2 hrs one NW lhe sv
; 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: Star-shaped object, size of a nickel, changing | The elevation of the object when it was
E | completely from red to white to green. Appeared| first and last seen was not reported,
to be rotating. Continued in a northwesterly precluding a valid conclusion. Star
direction and disappeared. Arcturus would disappear over horizon at
| aprox time of diapppearance of this ob-
Ject. All other characteristics of
astronomical observation present.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82)
td SR Ets eh Cl 0 a A EA go ies

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988213

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-08-01