Camp Carson, Colorado, Spring 1950Circa 1950

Insufficient Data

Summary

In the spring of 1950, an officer stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado, saw an object streak across the northeastern sky. The observer watched it for about seven seconds. The object appeared dark colored and solid looking, with fuzzy or blurred edges. It moved in a straight line at an extremely high speed and left no visible exhaust or vapor trail.

The Air Force received the official report years later, in 1966, when the retired colonel submitted a formal questionnaire about his sighting. By then, sixteen years had passed. The Air Force screened its 1950 case files but initially could not locate a record of the observation, suggesting it may have been filed at the base level rather than sent to Project Blue Book headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. When the Air Force finally did review the case with the new information provided, it concluded there was insufficient data to determine what the officer had seen.

The retired colonel expressed frustration with the Air Force's response. He said he had reported the sighting through proper channels at the time and believed he knew what he had witnessed. He disagreed with the Air Force's general explanations of UFO sightings and made clear he would continue treating the incident as a matter of public record. The Air Force acknowledged it was impossible to study the case thoroughly so many years after the fact, since atmospheric conditions and other details of that day could not be recreated or verified.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 16 scanned pages.

Reported location

Camp Carson, Colorado, Spring 1950

Date of incident

Circa 1950

State / country

? / XX

Page count

16 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

| N | 8 Lo PROJECT 10C73 RECORD Q . - EE ————— . —————. S— — 1. DATE - TIME GROUP 2. L TION , ; » \ J Spring 1950 Camp Carson, .¢lorade . 3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION A Military Insufficient data for evaluation 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 7 secends : Observer noted a dark colored, fuzzy at edges, ebject 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION disappear in the northeastern sky. It was a round type Ground Visual object moving in a straight line with ne exhaust er vaper trail noted. The ebject was traveling at an extremely 7. COURSE high rate of speed. NE —— The late date of the sighting makes a comprehensive 8. PHOTOS .. 3 : evaluation impessible at thisstime, The case is being HA GE TH HE * filed as insufficient data since with the available data X No : Re La ’ a detailed study is not pessible ar warrented, 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ny 0 Yes : ] b 4 Neo : FORM FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used, 4 bel dh NS a as Al x 4 RO i :