Waupon, WisconsinMay 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 Waupon, Wisconsin in May 1956. The full case file (3 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

Waupon, Wisconsin

Date of incident

May 1956

State / country

WI / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 6 May 1956
2. LOCATION: Waupun, Wisconsin
12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkboxes] Probably Aircraft
3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local 07/0411Z GMT
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual
5. PHOTOS: No
6. SOURCE: Civilian & Military
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 15 minutes
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
9. COURSE: S to N
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: One round object, size of baseball, like a light - low altitude de [illegible]
11. COMMENTS: Probable A/C

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28965558

Connected across the archive

People

2nd Lt John P Pinson Vic Negeet

Organizations

37th Air Division Truax Field Madison, Wisconsin 755th AC&W SC Williams Bay, Wisconsin

Programs and code names

Project Blue Book

Places

351 miles north east of Madison, Wisconsin Waupon Waupon, WI Waupun, Wisconsin Wisconsin