Cincinnati, OhioJune 1961

Unidentified

Summary

On a June evening in 1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio, someone observed an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force investigation file contains a detailed witness questionnaire and evaluation form, but the OCR scan quality makes most of the specific details illegible or heavily garbled across the seven pages.

What can be read from the cover sheet indicates the sighting was ground-based and visual. The evaluation form notes two possible conclusions: "Probably Balloon" and references to other potential explanations, though the OCR text is too unclear to state with certainty what the Air Force concluded. The file preserves a standard U.S. Air Force Technical Information Sheet and multi-page witness questionnaire, suggesting the case was documented according to Project Blue Book procedure, but the handwritten responses and OCR limitations prevent a reliable reconstruction of what the witness saw or how investigators analyzed the report.

The full case file, as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below in 7 scanned pages.

Reported location

Cincinnati, Ohio

Date of incident

June 1961

State / country

OH / US

Page count

7 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 7

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 1. pate 2. LOCATION [12. CONCLUSIONS oy
, y C3 nnd nn s Ohio lo Yias Calloon |
: te Lb] la | 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 3. TYPE OF OBSERVATION SRE oc Photinia vein
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PRTERTY VE ¢ R R  n BGround- Visual O Ground-Radar | 5 Wos Aircraft
& i: Sa | J ro PORIY Aircrafr
(ch GAY AV. P ITAA § TSS — | 0 Air-Visual 0D Air-Interceot Radar { O Possibly Aircraft l
5. PHOTOS SEER We |o Wes Astronomical
0 Yes \ |g Probably Astronomical |
5 No Hyvilian he Possibly Astronomical |
7. LENGTH OF O3S32RYATION | 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Ler Ohvher__Proh Roflastioa.
| | “1 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
1 pon | : | «Nr 0 Unknown #1 :
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [V1. COMMENTS The ob ijech described as |
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ATIC FORIM 329 (RRV 28 327 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28993210