Clayton, OhioAugust 1961

Unidentified

Summary

On August 13, 1961, in the early afternoon, civilians in Clayton, Ohio, reported bright objects in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

The witnesses described bright, shiny spots that looked like light and appeared vapor-like, about the size of an aircraft. Two objects approached from the south-southwest, passed other objects, and went out of sight. They returned from the northeast and approached again. The witnesses reported very high speeds. The sighting lasted about one minute. The sky was bright with scattered clouds.

The Air Force concluded there was no evidence that the objects were anything other than high flying aircraft reflecting sunlight.

Reported location

Clayton, Ohio

Date of incident

August 1961

State / country

OH / US

Page count

9 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 43

Original case file scans

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‘ hii PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD A i
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Bo
13 Aug 61 Clayton, Ohio D Probebly Belleon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION El Sy neon |
Local 1 00-1600 BX Ground- Visual © Ground-Radar oo Probekly Aive roft |
oMT_1320002 D AirVisuol O Air-Intercopt Roeder |O Possibly Aircraft
S. PHOTOS JOURCE 0 Was Astronomical |
Q Yes QO Probably Astronomicel
XX Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical |
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Oishii biti :
: : (=) kbd Data for Evaluation
1 min hb or 5 Varied Ati Be |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Bright shiny spot like 11. COMMENTSThere is no evidence available | :
light, appeared vapor-like. 2 objts approach- | which would indicate that objts of sight |
ing fm SSW passed objts and went out of sightd ing were anything other than high flying q
Returned fm NE and approached objt again. a/c reflecting sunlight. | | :
Bright shiny spots about size of a/c. Tremen- | | :
dous speeds. |
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82) ’ |
. ¢ : S,
78 a AR AA A MA BR SA ANA A 8 an ROA ac NBD SA RSMAS BERR ATR i srs ATI

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28994060