Dayton, OhioNovember 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Dayton, Ohio in November 1958. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 34.

Reported location

Dayton, Ohio

Date of incident

November 1958

State / country

OH / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
a : 5 4 0D Wos Balloon
FL MOV Lao 19 2000 VA O FRE © fy BT E(0 [1 Prabubly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 2 heemibly balloon |
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ss : 0 O Was Aircraft
|e ge send iE eso od bb £1 Ground- Visual 0) Ground-Raodar B. PraBaBIS Airarafs
GMT SM TR TY VR 0 Air Visual 1 Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 4. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical RA ')
OYes 0. Probably Astronomical( SI,
O Ne Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE EA He pila iii hil al Sei io
: 0 Insufficient Dato for Evaluction ;
EEN 3 3 Unknown
fn SD GIs Bre de 1 Rig alt: CLELC, Set EE OEE”
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
3 © ight obj 2 3 FF Ac Lyin it hen darkened. Probab. Voastrd Omi: i
Moved rapidly Torward & backsard once,
then settled down, Appegrad as bright
star except o times larger,
2. Speerhead shaped obj w/light oi
a star, maving very slowly, stream
ing finger of light behind. Looked ;
rather like a completely lighted jet,
out moving vers slowly,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
Ps Be A BB i ep Co L

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28980903

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Places

Dayton, OH Ohio

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1958 1958-11-01