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1952 · SEAT: MISHAWAKA · DISPOSITION: INSUFFICIENT DATA
The smallest case in this section is a single line in the Air Force's own index, and it carries the date conflict this build was warned about. In the Project Blue Book Master Index for 1952 — the Air Force's year-by-year list of every sighting it logged, with the evaluation attached — the section headed "2–10 May 1952 Sightings" contains, under day 8, the entry: Mishawaka, Indiana — INSUFFICIENT DATA. No case number is legible in the copy read, and the index gives nothing more: no witness class, no description, no hour. The same case is carried elsewhere in this county's builds at a different date, March 8, 1952. This build's pull settles what it can and prints the rest open: the March 1952 section of the Master Index copy read here (the redacted, high-resolution copy at the Internet Archive) was read whole and contains no Mishawaka entry — its Indiana-free pages run from Goose Bay to Contra Costa without one — while the May section carries the entry at day 8 in so many words. Both dates therefore print, with their carriers: March 8, 1952, as carried in the other county index; May 8, 1952, as carried in the Air Force Master Index copy read first-hand for this build. They are not merged, and no choice between them is made here.
What either date describes is equally plain, and equally small. An insufficient-data entry means a report reached the Air Force from Mishawaka — the industrial city adjoining South Bend on the county's eastern side — and the file did not contain enough to evaluate. It is not an Unknown, and it is not an explained sighting; it is the index's thinnest standard verdict, and in a year when the Air Force logged 1,501 reports it is one line. The case is printed at that size because that is its size: Mishawaka's entire Blue Book file, on the record reached, is one dated line and a two-word disposition, with its date standing in conflict between its carriers.
Sources: Air Force Master Index, 1952 (Project Blue Book Indexes, archive.org, redacted high-resolution copy), sections "2–31 March 1952 Sightings" and "2–10 May 1952 Sightings," both read whole — the Mishawaka entry at day 8 of the May section, evaluation INSUFFICIENT DATA; the March date as carried in the county build's other index, per the register's case class for this section.