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Case FileNARA NAID 28964930 · T1206 Roll 24

Project Blue Book Case File

Taiwan Straits Area (CHINA), February 1956February 1956

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 Taiwan Straits Area (CHINA), February 1956 in February 1956. 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

Taiwan Straits Area (CHINA), February 1956

Date of incident

February 1956

State / country

? / XX

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
E

Ti PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :

3 0 Was Balloon i

4 24 February 1956 Taiwan Straits Area (CHINA) QO Probably Bljoen

fF 3. DATE-TIME GROUP : 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION rere ido

3 Local _DE€tween 11:00 & 1 PP Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 2 Probably Aircraft | :
E GMT 24/1100-13007Z 0 Air Visual X2ir-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft |

E RT oe Lo a RT NE re GU SE | TU 7 74g) 1 PAE |

A MXY es Dept of the Navy O Probably Astronomical
3 a Ne 3 O Possibly Astromomical

L 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION B NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE oO, Other_Ladar clutter

E 0 Insufficient Data ot Fasluation : f

FE 0 Unknown surface ships

| a 1 3/2 ariable variable ; ground target

3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ; wai

ke UFO tracks noticed by AEW a/c flying ar A detailed check & scope,

|  |Taiwan-Shanghai area. Two 35 mm reel of - photos, with consideration :
h film taken of objects, These and detailed given to known geographical {

3 prints fromthe reels studies for possible topographical and weather 7

E unknown, aircraft or surreptitious factors ef the area indicates i
activities in that area, that the opjpjects are the |

E result of ground & sea targets

1 : : (ship & sea returns) plus a

E great deal of interference |

4 from other radar equipment.

4 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28964930

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