Project Blue Book Case File
Clover, VermontAugust 1960
Summary
In August 1960, a resident of Clover, Vermont reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The sighting came to the attention of the U.S. Air Force through Senator Winston L. Prouty of Vermont, who forwarded the report on behalf of the witness.
The Air Force requested that the witness complete a detailed questionnaire so that officials at the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio could analyze the sighting. The questionnaire asked for precise information about the time, location, appearance, motion, and behavior of the object, as well as weather conditions and background details about the observer.
The OCR quality of the completed questionnaire is poor in places, making it difficult to extract specific details about what the witness saw, how long the object remained visible, or how it moved. The handwritten responses are largely illegible in the scanned document. On the front cover card, the Air Force's evaluation lists "Probably Balloon" as one possible conclusion, though the full reasoning behind any final determination does not appear clearly in the available pages.
The complete case file, as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below and consists of 13 pages.
Reported location
Clover, Vermont
Date of incident
August 1960
State / country
VT / US
Page count
13 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 39