DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE6310179
DATE OF SIGHTINGJuly 1949
REPORTED LOCATIONTigvariak Island Alaska
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9 Jul
13. SOURCE
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‘4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
SIX
5S LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /|11.
1-14 minutes
6 TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual
7. COURSE
; Southwest
6. PHOTOS
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2. LOCATION
Tigvariak Island, Alaska
10. CONCLUSION
BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Observer heard a "terrible" whistling sound like a rifle bullet
but continuous. Then he spotted overhead six or seven dark
objects travelling very fast in a SSW direction. The objects
faded frog sight about 1-13 minutes after he first sighted
them
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