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This document is a U.S. Air Force technical questionnaire dated March 1953 investigating an unidentified aerial object sighted by radar personnel at Great Falls Air Force Base, Montana on or about February 27, 1953. The form requests detailed information about the radar observation: equipment specifications, target characteristics on scope (size, speed, movement patterns), radar scope photographs, track data, maintenance status, and personnel observations. A letter from Howard L. Davis of Ohio State University's Emerson McMillin Observatory discusses evaluation of UFO cases from a March batch, noting that several reports lack sufficient data while others show promise for scientific follow-up, particularly the Shaw Air Force Base incident where visual and radar sightings may coincide. The document confirms the Air Technical Intelligence Center's systematic collection methodology for analyzing unexplained radar contacts.