Cincinnati, OhioApril 1960

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Summary

On April 28, 1960, six children in Cincinnati, Ohio reported seeing colored lights in the sky over a fifteen-minute period. The sightings occurred at various times and locations around the city. The children reported seeing red, green, and white lights. Most individual sightings lasted only a few seconds. The lights always disappeared quickly and usually moved in random directions rather than in a straight line.

The weather that day was cloudy with haze throughout Cincinnati. An Air Force investigator noted that the random movement of the lights, combined with the low clouds and haze present, made it quite possible that the children were actually observing light reflections bouncing off the haze or cloud cover rather than a genuine aerial object.

The Air Force concluded that the sightings were probably caused by balloon or light reflections. The file does not indicate that any further investigation was conducted beyond the initial assessment.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, spanning 8 pages.

Reported location

Cincinnati, Ohio

Date of incident

April 1960

State / country

OH / US

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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| \ DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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28 April, 1960 Cincinatti, “hio a Probably Balloon | |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ty |
20 0 Was Aircraft
—— : XX Ground-Visuol 0 Ground-Rodor a Probably Aireroft
GMT 2 C1 0 Air Visvol O Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aireraft |
5. PHOTOS _ . SOURCE 0 Was Ast ical |
i. — 0 Probably Awrrohonten)
YS Ne (NO Pictures) Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
} | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE XX other light Reflections|
0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
seconds over 15 minutes One Varied ln chi |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Several different sightings of red, green, In view of the random movement and
and white lights by six children.at various location in the city togather with
times during a fifteen minute period. Longesff low clouds and haze it is quite possible
sighting lasted only a few seconds, Always that the children were observing light
disappearing and usually with random motion. | reflections from the haze or clouds,
In city of Cincinatti, Ohio with WX cloudy
with haze, |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28986715