Tulsa, OklahomaSeptember 1957

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 Tulsa, Oklahoma in September 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

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

OK / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

ERE PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD Br
= [1 oate : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i 0 Wos Bolloon
. 12 September 1957 Tulsa, Oklahoma 0 Grohobry Bolloon
i | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Be Frosty, ONoon
1 1700 CST i i O Was Aircroft
E Local 0 Ground- Visual XeGround-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
EF GM 12/2300%7 0 AirVisudl 0 Air-Intercept Rodar O Possibly Aircraft
FE 5. pa [«13 8. SOURCE O Wos Astronomical
4 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
1 & No Civilian O Possibly Astronomicol
. | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE xomherR2dar Malfunctipns
1 O Insufficient Dato for Evaluotion
L 0 Unknown
~ [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
FE Object on radar at approximately 60 Believed to be radar malfunction.
f miles range travling at an estimated
1 speed of 24,000 miles per hour, It
E disappeared in the center of the scope
| | ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
3 /
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971611

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Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

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B-47

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