Dayton Airport, OhioApril 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. Pages 9 and 10 are largely illegible, and critical portions of the witness questionnaire responses on earlier pages are garbled or obscured by poor scanning quality. While the cover sheet indicates a sighting at Dayton Airport, Ohio in April 1958, and notes an Air Force evaluation of "Probably Balloon," the specific details of what was observed, when the observation occurred, how long it lasted, and the investigative findings cannot be reliably extracted from this document. The full case file, comprising 10 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.

Reported location

Dayton Airport, Ohio

Date of incident

April 1958

State / country

OH / US

Page count

10 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 32

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 10

Transcribed text

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 12. COMCLUSIONS
b
0 Was Balloon i
7 Apr 58 | Dayton Ai rport, Ohio 2 Probably Beatloon
; ee ee ee ee eee ee re er eM ta br mt ele ie Yee stm NE ee r or lr
; { J. DATETIME GRQOLIP i 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION [S] FOSsStoiy Duailioon {
3
i Ere] Fei av fo nM panies ST Vi He esi 0 Ground-Visuel 0 Ground-Rader | 0 ub Aircraft
| | C1 Probably Aircraft
") 4 r{ ) Bg 7 j exit \ Ai 0
| MT 08/00307 sari Sains EEOC STEA ve Vi mi 4) O Air-intercept Radar | O Possibly Aircraft
| 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE {o Was Astronomical
C Yes | 0 Probably Astronomical
a No rE as O Possibly Astronomical
LE Se J en adh eed Td ve else I Sd Sb a SAP rf SI Br 0 a eT ee ese sh The TO Le pa
; 7. LENGTH CF O3SERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE B Other Migtnltan Tdan,
| 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
i : i | : ¥ 0 Unknown
Bones en TEL RIE i re oneal) vertical ito: Si
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING jae COMMENTS
very dark cloud blue obj, 6 to 8 ft Mistaken identity of conventional
tdiameter. obj, such as a rRloud, a/c, balloo: 5
etc,
h ATIC FORM 229 (RZV 25 SEP 52) > :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28977668

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Places

Dayton Airport, OH Ohio

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-04-01