Dayton and Vicinity, May 1962May 1962

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Summary

In May 1962, residents of Dayton, Ohio and surrounding areas reported seeing strange lights in the sky. The Dayton Air Force Base received about a dozen phone calls about unidentified flying objects during this period. According to the base's officer of the day report, the Dayton Police Department concluded that the sightings were most likely caused by a small aircraft equipped with flashing advertising lights flying over the area.

The Air Force filed this case with the conclusion that the objects were probably a balloon, though other possibilities listed included aircraft or astronomical phenomena. The file contains a detailed witness questionnaire with spaces for sketches and descriptions, though the OCR quality of the scanned pages makes it difficult to read most witness responses clearly.

The full case file, comprising 14 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.

Reported location

Dayton and Vicinity, May 1962

Date of incident

May 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

14 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 14

Transcribed text

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i 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS [
3 yd ; ss BE Se ly Woes Balloon {
4 bog ay 10 Dayeon and VICLNALTY | Probably Balloon |
2 EA RR bt A Sd LES SRR Spm es Ss A n Possibly Bolle
F | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 1. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Bolloon |
“ . 7s . 0 Was Aircraft {
ne os] 8 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar : \
4 Locale tomas sd es eee 0 Ground- Visual 1 Ground-Radae 0 Probubly Aircraft 1
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c i CMT ester — 0 Air Visual C1 Air-Intarcept Radar 0 Possibly Airzral
1 { 5. PHOTOS 6. SQURCE |o Was Astronomical i
4 O Yes i 1 Probably Astronomical t
s 7 No tvi1ia 3 Possibly Astronomicel |
E | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3 NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Il he ea)
EF { 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 } V 3 0 Unknown !
E oo Nexaead eee random ee {
3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Phone calls TO LT Lice 11. COMMENTS / Ty? on 08 1 |
E » strange lights. Letter EB BFE 0 [HRD loc e ine t x
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28997395

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1962 1962-05-01