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Case FileNARA NAID 28966010 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Watertown, WisconsinJune 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 Watertown, Wisconsin in June 1956. 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 25.

Reported location

Watertown, Wisconsin

Date of incident

June 1956

State / country

WI / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE | 2. LOCATION { 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION BL vos Ry ao eR
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| Local Ce EXGround- Visuc! C Ground-Radar eg Boobebly Alreroft
ogi 80088 | DAiVisal | OAlnlatercept Radar (0 POSEY Aireral
5. PHOTOS | 6: SOURCE O Was Astronomicol JUD1lEY
0 Yes OX X¥Probobly Astronomical
XIX No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |O,Other—
| swaying 8 a ah iclant Doto for Evaluation
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ree hrs & 5 mins one i hovering
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Ta
One star shaped object the size of The description of the object
a basketball held at arms length and the position of the object
| color of blue-green. Object was indicate that in all probability
sighted in low westerly direction this sighting wag caused by the
; for a period of three hours and five | planet Jupiter, Probably astro.
| minutes, ;
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP §2)
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