Ashland, WisconsinJuly 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

On a night in July 1962, a resident of Ashland, Wisconsin saw brief flashing lights through a bedroom window. The sighting lasted only a short time. The observer reported seeing five flashes of light, though the exact duration and other details are difficult to read in the declassified documents.

The Air Force sent an official form to the witness shortly after the sighting, asking for detailed information about what had been observed. However, the witness's completed responses are not clearly legible in the available pages of this case file. The OCR (optical character recognition) quality of the scanned document makes it hard to read most of the specific answers about the object's appearance, movement, size, and other characteristics.

In the brief summary on the case's cover sheet, the Air Force noted that "probability exists that this was a balloon," though the full reasoning for that assessment does not appear clearly in the pages on file. The case was marked as "unknown" rather than definitively closed, meaning the Air Force did not reach a firm conclusion about what the witness had seen.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, 11 pages in total.

Reported location

Ashland, Wisconsin

Date of incident

July 1962

State / country

WI / US

Page count

11 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 11

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‘| 1. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
] " Lek " QO Was Balloon
Jul 62 Ashland, Wisconsin a Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
" 3 0 Was Aircraft
| LI it — © Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar Bx Probably Aircraft
TL SHAR + bv 14 | 8 br GRRE oy 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE : O Was Astronomical
QO Yes O Probably Astronomical |
1 ‘O'No Civilian QO Possibly Astronomical
4 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BR ia | |
E O Insufficient Data for Evaluation] |
: O Unknown i
: 12 sacs One manguvered
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3 "110. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
: richt nhi flashing observ ad through nrief duration of flashing lights. |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28997932