PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6966947

DATE OF SIGHTINGApril 1958

REPORTED LOCATIONThurston Piercecounties Wash

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Ref your UFO Report, 25CADD-TAC-D-31, dtd 9 Aor 53, Astro
checks and plota show white, bright, stationary object seen in
early dawn was in alaost exact position of planet Venus, now
very bright in pre-sunrise sky. Eelieve this could have been
determined and confirmed from checks in Source's area, Ref, para,'s
by and 5, AFR 200-2, dtd 5 Feb 58,
Yor purposes of record request specific locations and names of
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persons revorting UFO's, Not given in your U?O report, HQ USAF
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