Caracas, Venezuela, June 1961June 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

The OCR text from this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the record cards on pages 1 and 5 indicate a sighting in Caracas, Venezuela in June 1961, and reference observations of "lights" with notes about "straight flight" and motion from "SE," the detailed witness questionnaire pages (6-13) are largely illegible in the OCR output. Critical passages describing what was actually observed, when it occurred, and investigative findings are either garbled or unreadable. The file does conclude that the object was "probably balloon" according to the evaluation checkboxes, but without reliable OCR transcription of the substantive investigation materials, a responsible summary cannot be constructed. The full case file, comprising 13 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.

Reported location

Caracas, Venezuela, June 1961

Date of incident

June 1961

State / country

? / XX

Page count

13 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 13

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
l. DATE ks LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS |
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\ : 385, 1 12 Was Balloon l
| Probably Balloon |
S—— - ———————-e ————— DE — —— - —— S— S————— ii —i bis = S88 [] .
3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Pr Possibly Balloon
1 oe . A c Wos Alsconl |
di | BI A CO YS &) Ground-Visual 0 Cround-Rador - SON Srerary . |
; | Qa Pro yably Aircraft |
a \ ; | |r Be "Rage
CAT 7s SR edie RE er aA Deen MEA | DO Ais~Visual 8] Air-Intercept Rodar | 0 Possibly Aircraft |
5. PHOTOS TT Ee lo Ne Asdcsied
Q Yes O Pre bably Astronomical
x GC: No ivilian I Possibly Astronomical |
{ 7+ LENGTH OF 03SZRVATION | 8. MUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE | 2 Other__al loon i/ £5 yecirot
| ! O Insufficient Dora for Ey fuation |
; i (3 | Vor (6 Unknown |
i SER aan TR) sa 7 CEASE ACE
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [11. COMMENTS |
: 2 |
| 031 ' | . > ar “5 ™ y lap | g . YO ri . 1
| . times tha ff Vers, Obi mit ted 1ights | merica, Ls )ssible that thi.
similar to flashes from : rkler, I 3h | was t 28€,
ol =r read, Digan i Lt 30 deg elev
| 4 LORIUN 6 A i 3C Tom ver i LP
- . i : ' i : : [
| L/ un ) x Sek} 1ST lu OUT, |
| |
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EB 5 SP EE mum 1 I PEG SAME, LE SRE EAR Se SR a —————————————————————— a ——————)
ATIC FORM 329 (R2V 25 8EP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28993006

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-06-01