PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7228514

DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONWales North Dakota

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. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
5 September 1957 Wales, North Dakota 0 Prabably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bollloon
Local evening Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
0 Probably Aireraft
GMT AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE xxWas Astronomicol Meteor
Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
XNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LEI OF.OBSERVATION 9 COURSE Other_
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Letter to senator requesting infor- Reply indicates that obj or objs
mation on sighting. were meteors.
No rpt in file.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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8 November 1957
Dear Ca
Inclosed herewith ama news clippings
reporting an Unidenti Obie
in September 1957.
Request furnish this office an analysis
this reported sighting for submisaion to Senator Langer.
. Sincerely,
2 Inclosures LAWRENCE J. TACKER
1. 1. correspondence correspondence Major, USAF Major, USAF
2. 2. news clippings Executive Orficer
7 Public Information Division
Office of Information Info rmation Services Services
Captain
Assistant Adjutant
Air Technical Intelligence Center
Wright-Patterson Ail A1s Base
Ohio
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reply
to Senator Langer:
inquiry
Horth Dakota.
"This muttor has bee mutter has been referred referred to the Air to the Air Technical Technical
Intelligence Intelligence Center for analysis Center for analysis and evalution. As gvaluution. A3
scon as a soon 3 report has beon beon roceived you will you omptly
notified.
"I am inclosing the latest Force Fact Sheet Fact Sheet
concerning the Air Force's Stuly of Unidentified
Flying Cbjeots." Flying Cbjeots."
3. Roquest Roquest Congressional inquirias Air
aied to this Directorate for Directorate fo COORD
COMEBACK
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STAYBACK
JOE W. KELLY
Major General, USAP
Director, Le laison
Inclosure eVEIr
DOD Nows Release
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occurrence. Recoris iniisate that the majority of peopls
nover see one in their lifetime. Bolides, or "fireballs,
differ from ordinary meteors in that they aro very mich
brighter (sometines transforming night into temporary day)
and appear Like a ragneoium flare hurtling through the lower
atmoerhere, and in that they persist to mch lower levels in
the atnogphare. Predoninantly bluish-white in color, these
oftan have oran , yollow and greanish tints interaixed. A
bolide is a 1238 of metoorie material that ignites
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visible at hedghts above 50 miles but, unlike an ordinary
matoor, does not burn out in the air but frequently persists
until it or to earth singly or Done
Cur conolusiors mare submitted Cor vont the
Jnithsonian Astropbysieal Obsery the
meteories field, who conf our
wete foll CO: CCORD
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on 2l Nov Maj Takker on 2l Mov Maj Takker received case w. received case wi T
Capt G. T. Cregory/AFcIN-AEL.
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