Case File · AARO · Cold War Sightings (1953-1969) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

Project Blue Book Case (1956) — USAF Records (D214P47)

UFO Visual Sighting

Project Blue Book: Edward J. Ruppelt published 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects' in 1956, detailing investigations into UFOs. The report is accessible through online archives.

1956
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 214
Source document: PURSUE doc 214 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 47 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1956 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

Edward J. Ruppelt published ‘The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects’ in 1956, detailing investigations into UFOs. The report is accessible through online archives.

Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.

Status of the case

The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

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