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Case FileNARA NAID 28971194 · T1206 Roll 28

Project Blue Book Case File

Tacoma, WashingtonAugust 1957

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Tacoma, Washington in August 1957. 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 28.

Reported location

Tacoma, Washington

Date of incident

August 1957

State / country

WA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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f PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
i 1. DATE i : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; O Wos Balloon
: 1R Ayg 9357 Tacoma, Washington O Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP L TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Belleen
3 2 0 Was Aircraft
i Br Re RR RC ea vA TX Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar O Probably Aircraft
guy 19 /0404 Z (Dusk) 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
B 3. PHOTOS SQURCE (XXWas Astronomical Meteor
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
: xX Mo Military O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE rf 0 A tn NS EE
i O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
O Unknown
9 seconds one SSW
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. .COMMENTS
One object round, size end of cigarette, Meteor sighting.
color orange, object meved fast, faded
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971194

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