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Case FileNARA NAID 28984801 · T1206 Roll 37

Project Blue Book Case File

Telephone Ridge, OregonOctober 1959

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 Telephone Ridge, Oregon in October 1959. The full case file (6 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 37.

Reported location

Telephone Ridge, Oregon

Date of incident

October 1959

State / country

OR / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 37

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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* | 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i & 4 i ; 0 Was Balloon
| Ooi 59 Telephone Ridge, Oregon 0 Probobly Balloon
"|. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0: Tie snl By, Ballosh
| 0 Was Aircraf
| Lo cal A LE rr VL LD NT CV BC SHAE Torin 3] Ground-Vi sual a Ground-Radar (w} Brebably Alverds
| ef pi 8) A DE I re 0 Air Visuadl O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
8 5 PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
: OD Possibly Astronomical
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| | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other UNIDENTIFIED
A KH. Insufficient Data for Evaluation
+i | Mae Unknown
BR | over 30 mins 1 uD
© 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28984801

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