West Port, WashingtonApril 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from West Port, Washington in April 1958. 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 32.

Reported location

West Port, Washington

Date of incident

April 1958

State / country

WA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 32

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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4 GMT PASAY SEZ WARES] 0 Air Visual C Air-Intercept Radar U Possibly Aircraft
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& 5. PHOTOS | 8. SOURCE | O Wes Astronomical MeL, C01
F 0 Yes {iis ] | 8% Probably Astronomical
a = yg | Civilian (Light House Keep Al Possibly Astronomical
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fy 7. LENGTH OF 235ERVATION i 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE El =z Othe powctevioniitatindiid ana 5.5
IE | BC Insufficient Data for Evaluation
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E 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Large, rnd, orange & white obj. Had Description is characteristic
3 long tail, Broke Uipies Feulids | a metzor,
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28977986

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Places

Washington West Port, WA

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-04-01