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AFOSI box 7: 233 incident summaries from the Project Blue Book era (1955)

Three-volume Air Force Office of Special Investigations dossier (Box 7) containing 233 incident summary reports from 1955. Released by the Department of War as part of PURSUE Release 01.

Each of these incident summaries includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.

**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:

- **38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_1-100** (Department of War, 1955-06-15) — 209 pages.

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- **38_143685_box_Incident_Summaries_101-172** (Department of War, 1955-06-15) — 178 pages.

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- **38_143685_box_Incident_Summaries_173-233** (Department of War, 1955-06-15) — 144 pages.

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*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*

### From the declassified record

**Description:** spherical or disc-like shape · **Altitude:** 33,000 ft MSL

*Direct excerpt from the declassified document. Full document linked above.*

Source documents
Primary sourceU.S. Department of War — PURSUE Release 01
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