DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE8858099
DATE OF SIGHTINGAugust 1958
REPORTED LOCATIONPhoenix Arizona
FRAMES3
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
2. LOCATION ,
Phoenix, Arizona
10. CONCLUSION
Photo Evaluation: Wind pattern trailing sand/earth. Single
line below this is probably due to poor
photo processing.
1. DATE - TIME GROUP.
3. SOURCE
One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
N/A
é. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
' Photo taken in August 1958 submitted in 1965 for USAF
evaluation.
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FORM
FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) previous editions of thie form may be used.
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30 July 1965
DATE OF REPORT
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suzsect ANALYSIS OF UNIDENTIFIED PiTENOMENA
LOCATION PHOENIX, ARIZONA USA =~ SWITZERLAND
PHOTOGRAPHY
pate AUGUST 1958 - JULY 1959
QUALITY
, Pwas ltiteched 2- 357m Color Slides and copies thereof
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1. PURPOSE: This report is in answer to Work Order Number 65-8) from T/Sgt D. N. Moody,
TDEW/UFO, for an analysis of the attached two color slides and two black and white photo
reproductions thereof.
2. ANALYSIS: The color slide of Highway 69, vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona is a copy
‘probably from a picture in a magazine. It bears a registration symbol in the upper right
' hand corner of a type used by professional photographers. The slide depicts the phenomena
of a desert sunset and contains little more than colorful and picturesque cloud formations.
_ At the approximate midpoint of the slide is an orange, funnel-like mass wnich is probably
a wind ‘pattern trailing a plume of sand/earth which has been lifted from the desert floor.
A single, diagonal line immediately below this mass is probably due to poor photo processing.
-a@. The second slide, taken in Switzerland, is also a copy, although in this case the
The photograph is a low oblique possibly aerial in
original source cannot be identified.
format and shows a view of the typical mountainous terrain of Switzerland. The definition ~
and color rendition of the slide are at best only fair. Within the upper portion of the
photograph is an oblong-appearing translucent streak which is probably due to reflection
from possibly a portion of the aircraft's surface from which the photographywas taken.
| | b. No items of significance were observed on either slide. -
PHOTO ANALYSIS
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