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Case FileNARA NAID 28989289 · T1206 Roll 40

Project Blue Book Case File

Vicinity Winchester Bay, OregonSeptember 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

I am unable to provide a reliable summary of this case. The OCR text from the case file is too severely degraded and incomplete to accurately reconstruct what was observed.

The first page's cover sheet indicates this is a September 1960 sighting near Winchester Bay, Oregon that the Air Force evaluated as "probably balloon." However, the remaining 14 pages of the file consist primarily of unrelated magazine articles about astronomy, satellites, and atmospheric phenomena. Pages 9 through 13 contain brief notes labeled "No Case (Information Only)" from other locations and dates (New Berlin, Wisconsin; Kingston, Massachusetts; Edmonton, Alberta), and page 14 is a table of dozens of other sightings.

The core investigative material for the Winchester Bay case itself either does not appear in these scans, or is too corrupted in the OCR to extract reliably. Without readable witness statements, investigative notes, or supporting documentation specific to this case, an accurate summary cannot be constructed.

The full case file as held by the National Archives comprises 14 scanned pages.

Reported location

Vicinity Winchester Bay, Oregon

Date of incident

September 1960

State / country

OR / US

Page count

14 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 40

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 14
Transcribed text
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§ F. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

i he ST) 60 Vicinity Winche st Sp Bos Oraror D0 Vos Bolloon

3 - A Aa a cit ach Ub il art, aes O Probably Balloon

: ee gone pcr ee SE ES ES Possik )

E 3. DATE-TIME GI0UP 4. TYPE OF CBSERVATION WW. Tasmy Dettoen

2 SL RRR i ’ 815% J Gmund-Visual 0 Ground-Rodar a Was Aiveraft

: = CTE Binoculars 0 Probably Aircroft

2 tg RES el A cdo po Eh ARE 0 Ateclmorespt Roeder DD Possibly Airerafr

§ 5. PHOTOS | 8 SOURCE er a at

t 0 Yas Seba wa 0 Probably Astronomical Jupiter
: - a a 0 Possibly Astronomizol

2 No |

8 7. LENGTH OF CABS3ZRVATION [3. NUMBZR OF O3JECTS | 9. COURSE BE Oe

¥ tJ Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
4 3-4 min | one rapid ascent 0 Unknown

i EERE ET a RR ei SS Se RG OES EE RR CE Br OE LM On
E 10. BRIZE SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11. COMMENTS

¢ Spherical, noonsized object oscillating in a It is concluded that refraction of the

¢ rapid ascent with all colors of the spectrum. plonet Jupiter was responsible for this
£ Decreasing size, sighting. It is nob unusual for re? actey
i astronomical objects to give the illusioch
1 of zooming straight up. The description |
; by the witness ia characteristis of
objects distorted by atmospheric rafrac- :
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se Ail asa si es Ra rE ERR eR Re TG [VR SR ee A CR CE Sn ER SA
ATIC FORM 329 (R2V 15 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28989289

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