Thurston-Pierce counties, Wash., April 1958April 1958

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 Thurston-Pierce counties, Wash., April 1958 in April 1958. The full case file (5 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 32.

Reported location

Thurston-Pierce counties, Wash., April 1958

Date of incident

April 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 32

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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i PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
FS ED EE {2. LOCATION |12. CONCLUSIONS
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: % ‘ ; iw) Was Balloon
4 9 Apr 58 Thurston-Pierce counties, |O Brobably Hal
§ ef ee ef ee ee ee ee ee Eee Possibly Ball
| 3. DATETIME GROUP | i. TYPE OF OBSERYATION Wash. 1% Fld BL
2 ARE ole i ) | 0 Was Aircraft
Le a a EERE ne | £} Ground-Visual J Ground-Radar a Probably Aircraft
oi oemiaoleog 0 [0D AIeVisiel | 0 Aleriercept Radar: | 15 Po ssitly aire
5. PHOTOS i 6. SOURCE Hoy Was Astronomical Von us
; C Yes {0 Probably Astronomical
: 10 No € ivilia faa 0 Possibly Astronomical
i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE GH Of hapresredivid indi Sel BT :
: O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
: ; eli 0 Unknown
; 15 mins | one RS ah ap |
a 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
White, triangular obj, very bright, Practically exact positaons of
EE Venus at that time. Observation
§ at dawn,
4
is ATIC FORM 329 (RZV 25 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28977723

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-04-01