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.
- Record type
- Document Release
- Primary source
- linked
- Named witnesses
- 0
- Media
- 3
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.*
Published
- The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Hidden TruthsJ. Allen Hynek · 1972
The original taxonomy of close encounters by Project Blue Book's chief scientific consultant — the book that introduced 'close encounters of the third kind'.
- The Hynek UFO Report: The Authoritative Account of the Project Blue Book Cover-UpJ. Allen Hynek · 1977
Hynek's distillation of roughly 12,000 Project Blue Book cases — his argument that the Air Force's public debunking diverged from its own files.
- The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsEdward J. Ruppelt · 1956
The first-hand account by the Air Force officer who ran Project Blue Book in its early years — the 1952 Washington radar sightings, the Tremonton film, the Mantell case, the green fireballs and the 1953 scientific panel, told from inside the project.
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