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Case FileNARA NAID 28990482 · T1206 Roll 41

Project Blue Book Case File

Vicinity, Ketchikan, AlaskaDecember 1960

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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 Vicinity, Ketchikan, Alaska in December 1960. 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 41.

Reported location

Vicinity, Ketchikan, Alaska

Date of incident

December 1960

State / country

AK / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 41

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6
Transcribed text
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I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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1 ac 00 flCcANioyY, Ketcnikan, Alicia
3 i : 24 3 J 0 Probably Balloon
ee ete et eee retest easements enicnseeer| () Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION y
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FC JCS TRA — ‘DO Ground-Visuval 0 Ground-Rodor Q Wes ob :
t Pi a t fonds 0 Probably had
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OMT aE VG & LT ed 0 Air-Vizuel 0 Alr-Intercep? Rador 0 Possibly Aircraft
5 PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical Venu:
Yes RE (3. Probably Astronomical =]
M1litaxry >ossibly As ical i
Stati 0 Possibly Astronomico
7 No
7. LENGTH OF OB3Z3VATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other_Searculighis o2
124 TY pe AS 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
" £7 «ill f = One 3 Unknown
HD o Pel min 2D « two
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING 1. COMMENTS
i -~=50ape undetermined, brilliant light, ster- First object reported was probably the
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like, dirming and brightening. Size of diue. planet Venus which was locab in vicinitl
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White. Seen abt 1000, Observed elevation 2000', | of reported object. Second objects were
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S3W,. Disappeared elevation 2000', slightly W probably ane to searchlights being used
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of first ene; red position. Observed on boat at] by two tug boats located in area at the
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202TN, 131.4%CW, #ew=shape undetermined, size] + ime.
of .pea., one was dull red; other dull white.
Same elevation aprox 100 yds apart. Chserved
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rary close to horizon and NW. Jisapveareq sale
nosition., Dull red light rose vertically sprox
NS dedi le ty " ™ » - EP an * Es 2 N TN
100 yds then back to horizon ones during 4 nin
observation. Ctherwise both stationary.
ATIC FORM 13129 (REV 25 SEP 52)
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