04.12S 154.04W, August 1962August 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

I cannot write a reliable summary of this case. The OCR text for the file is severely degraded, particularly on pages 9 through 12, which are nearly illegible. While pages 1 through 4 contain readable material, they document two separate sightings: one in August 1962 near Hawaii (location 04.12S 154.04W) and another in August 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio. The metadata provided indicates this file should be about the Hawaii sighting, but the content becomes too corrupted to extract accurate details about what witnesses saw, how the investigation proceeded, or what conclusion the Air Force reached. Rather than guess or speculate from garbled text, I must note honestly that the OCR quality does not support faithful summary work for this 12-page case file held by the National Archives.

Reported location

04.12S 154.04W, August 1962

Date of incident

August 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

12 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 12

Transcribed text

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EN DATE | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 9
0 Was Balinon F
29 Anqoust 1962 | yeh. 12S 185 D4 2 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP ks TYPE OF OBSERVATION Wi TRY
: 0 Was Aircraft E
A re Re DR | OX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar Q Probably Ajrerdfr E
CMT WR Bh Pre $4 | 0 Ai~Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft A
5. PHOTOS | 8. SQURCE 0 Was Astronomical 1
8 Yes 00 Probably Astronomical ;
“No | Military 0 Possibly Astronomical 1
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BMX Other...Satallite F
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 3
: 4 : pes 3 Unknown g
o.mins i one NI 1
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS 4
Ood brightness of lst nag star obsvd 5
f during dawn at 050dgr azimuth, 43dgr 1
eiev & disappearing into douds at ; 1
Q48degr azimuth 25dgr elev after flight kK
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28998743

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Installations

Offutt Air Force Base

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1962 1962-08-01