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Case FileNARA NAID 28968450 · T1206 Roll 26

Project Blue Book Case File

Tupelo, MississippiNovember 1956

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Tupelo, Mississippi in November 1956. 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 26.

Reported location

Tupelo, Mississippi

Date of incident

November 1956

State / country

MS / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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he PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Boll
25 Novéembel 056 DE LC N| gssissipp 0 Probably Belteon {
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
OH i tsa XDGround- Visual O Ground-Rador ry Rivera |
GMT 26/05432 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aireralt
5. PHOTOS . O Was Astronomical
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
X® No Civi lian O Possibly Astronomicel
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE O,O0ther——  —
- owen Dette for Evaluation
ten minutes one S to 0 NW : "
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1). COMMENTS  -
One round (turning to crescent-shaped Description, duration and fligh
object, color of bright orange on one path indicate that this sight-
side and dark orange on the other, ing was probably caused by an
size of a quarter at arm's length, aircraft.
Object started in South and circled
to the west and disappeared in the
Northwest, Object was observed visually
for ten minutes, :
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)
| ¥
: : 3
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28968450

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