Fairborn, OhioJune 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

On the evening of June 27, 1962, a witness in Fairborn, Ohio watched an unusual object in the sky for about three minutes. The witness described it as fuzzy or blurred, roughly the size of a marble held at arm's length. She initially thought it might be the satellite Echo, which was a well-known object in the sky at that time. The witness observed the object from a prone position (lying down), and it moved generally toward the south.

The Air Force investigators noted that their conclusion was limited by a lack of detailed data. However, they found that an aircraft was in the area at the time of the sighting, and they concluded that light from an aircraft was the probable cause of what the witness saw. The investigators also suggested that the witness's unusual viewing angle, lying flat on the ground, may have contributed to the difficulty in identifying what she was looking at. No physical evidence or additional corroborating observations were available in the case file.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, comprising 10 scanned pages.

Reported location

Fairborn, Ohio

Date of incident

June 1962

State / country

OH / US

Page count

10 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD - |
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 J Was Balloon
4 27 Jungs 1962 Fairborn, Chio AR det
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Ee TYPE OF OBSERVATION hsbc] Bai iad
2100 0 i i 0 Wos Aircraft
Local NTS Ground- Visual 3 Ground-Rador O¢ Probably Aircraft
(7 § PIE ~{5 TA (40, 87 AR A 0 Air~Visual O Alr-Intercant Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE BF Was Asttenemicsl
0 Yas 0 Probably Astronomical
a Ne Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH CF CASEZRVATION | 8 NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ERHOIRRYA Sr son Dds he
: | 0 lasufficient Dare for Evaluation
: 0 Unknown
? min i 1 Generally S x
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Sor lille objh was 11. COMMENTSII0 positive conclusion caa be
observed for 3 min by witnesses in Fairborn, reached in this case due to lack of
Chio, Cb jt was described as fuzzy or blurred | substantial data and fact that exact
i and about size of a marble at arms length. positions of all a/c in area cannot be
Witness stated she first thought objt to be determined for specific times. However
satellite Echo. Witness observed objt zenith | there was a flignt in area at time of
fm a prone position. Course of objh was gen- sighting and light of a/c ‘as probable
erally to S. cause for sighting. Unusual perspective
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E fm prone position is probably a con-

E triouting factor. Thers is no evidence
available which indicates objt was not
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28997795