Vicinity Saipan Island, April 1960April 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 Saipan Island, April 1960 in April 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 38.

Reported location

Vicinity Saipan Island, April 1960

Date of incident

April 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

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
5 April, 1960 Vieinity Saisan Iceland 1 Wos Balloon
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3. DATE-TINE GROUP i. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 5 TRAY NEL
II i ic i ds Si ai Ground-Visu 0 und-R 0 Was Aieroft
; by * BX Ground ol Ground-Radar 1 Probably Aircraft
mE Yel 0 Ais Visuel O Air-Intercept Radar | Possibly Aircraft |
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE £1, Was Astronomicol Meteor
‘ 0 Yes : 3" Probably Astronomicel
0 No Civilian : 3 Possibly Astronomicel
7. LENGTH OF O23ERVATION 8. NUMBER OF CBJECTS | 9. COURSE RRL) ERR UL MERI CAN DIN
0 lasufficient Data for Evaluation
10-60 s=conds Une Dasecondine oh sd
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING 1. COMMENTS ;
To oF Se 3 EE FS ay i od LE “oo * Piye ld 2 jr 2 vd 2 ene Fog! £5 hy
vbkong object, size of softball s variously Multiple sighting of same cLlceh
described as blue-white, or red-yellow, with indicates variance in description
RR EV Some 1 Ane ae ba das rg. SEA go of oh4inpt rary (13 Qa racra
Lait 20 thames ong or than wa nn body. Anpeared oh AR 0] 8 ject, even clisagreement on color
to have much slower fall than meteor and was AALRAERAGUIAENY Probably 2 meteor,
much brighter and fell in a slow arc. Dis-
| appeared by burning out,
ATIC FORM 32% (REV Z5 SEP 582)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28986399

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-04-01