Ada, OklahomaMay 1956

On May 17, 1956, a man and a friend in Ada, Oklahoma, spotted approximately twenty objects in the sky. They described the objects as round, with a silver and gray color, and sharply outlined. When compared to familiar sizes, the objects appeared to be between 50 and 100 feet wide. The most distinctive feature was a protrusion, or bump, in the center of each object. The sighting lasted about twenty seconds, and the objects moved from southwest to northwest across the sky.

The witness was concerned enough about what he had seen to write to the Air Force in July 1956. He noted that he had also sent information to a civilian flying saucer organization, but decided the Air Force should have the report instead. He included a diagram showing how the objects appeared in the sky.

The Air Force investigated the sighting but found insufficient data. The OCR quality of much of the investigative material in this file is too poor to read with confidence, making it difficult to determine what specific steps investigators took or what conclusions they may have reached beyond noting the lack of adequate information.

The file also contains a related sighting from May 18, 1956, in Pueblo, Colorado, which the Air Force identified as a weather balloon. However, that case is distinct from the Ada sighting and does not appear to be directly connected to it.

The full case file, as preserved by the National Archives, is reproduced below and contains twelve scanned pages.