Dexter, MissouriJune 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

The OCR from this case file is too degraded and fragmented to reliably reconstruct the witness reports and investigation details. While the cover sheet indicates a sighting near Dexter, Missouri in June 1961 of a star-like object described as bright, reddish-orange at times and blue-white, with movement from northeast to south, the majority of the document pages are either blank, heavily redacted, or contain only scattered words and field headers from the Air Force technical questionnaire forms. The file's evaluation appears to be "probably balloon," but the substance of witness testimony, investigative findings, and supporting evidence cannot be faithfully extracted from the available OCR text. The full case file of 16 pages is held by the National Archives as part of microfilm T1206, Roll 42.

Reported location

Dexter, Missouri

Date of incident

June 1961

State / country

MO / US

Page count

16 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 16

Transcribed text

| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
bh. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
9 y 2 ; HPT L . ke 0 Yas Balloon
4 o<4 Jun 4 Ey 0 Probably Balloon
CESSES, Se Rae Rp SSE SN HASSE IE Hen RAR LE (ET SRS SSO SSN ROR ACRE ( > 1
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bolloen
1 Cell & 0 Was Aircraft
Local ee eee 0 Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Raodar QO Prebobly Alverels
3 CE 0 he A OA 0 AirVisuol DO Air-Intercapt Radar 3 Possibly Aircraft
E S. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicol :
] 0 Yos 10 Probably Astronomical V 270010
i O'Neo .ivilian 00 Possibly Astronomizal
| 17. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION ESR OFOREETE Ih OUmE 10 Der
§ 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Ae a Es - 0 Unknown
] FRESE Corse, AR CEB IAD WEAN | A SRR Ra CARE TH TS RRR, (i SR SE SIRE CRAG GAS
B10. BRIER SUMMARY OF SIGHTING S:oy-1ike obit, bright |Vle COMMENTS Ohjk vac reported bens 42
3 reddish-orange at times and blue-white at NE moving 5S. Witnesses were parent 1: C
E | others. Avrezrad slishtly brighter than other| ing at objt through on huze layer, accord
E ATIC FORM 229 (REY 24 S22 52)

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Places

Dexter, MO Missouri

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-06-01