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8 May 1952: the Mishawaka index case

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Thursday, 8 May 1952

The record: The Air Force's index for 1952 carries one further St. In Blue Book's usage that evaluation is a statement about the file, not the sky: the report, as it reached the investigators, did not contain enough information to evaluate. Mishawaka is a separate city with its own history in this project, and the case is printed here as what it is — a St. Joseph County case in the neighboring city, boundary-noted and not absorbed into South Bend's count. At county level it doubles the 1952 record, and at file level it is the thinnest entry in this section: a date, a city, and the Air Force's statement that it could not judge what it had been sent.

Sources:

  1. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book index for 1952 (redacted digitized copy, archive.org, ProjectBlueBookIndexes) — the line "8 — Mishawaka, Indiana — INSUFFICIENT DATA," in the sightings block for 2–10 May 1952; the unredacted copy's location column confirms the entry's place in the same sequence.

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Source: 8 May 1952: the Mishawaka index case, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/ufo-sightings/8-may-1952-the-mishawaka-index-case/