Ganado, ArizonaJanuary 1962

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Summary

The OCR text provided is too garbled and illegible on the final page to support an accurate summary of the case details. While the first 29 pages contain witness questionnaires and forms that could yield information about sightings in Ganado, Arizona in January 1962, the critical investigative findings, official conclusions, and supporting documentation on page 31 and elsewhere are rendered unintelligible by OCR errors. Rather than speculate or invent details, I cannot responsibly summarize this case.

The full case file, consisting of 31 pages, is reproduced below as held by the National Archives.

Reported location

Ganado, Arizona

Date of incident

January 1962

State / country

AZ / US

Page count

31 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 44

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 31

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3 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
4 bo 0 Was Balloon
i 29 Jan 02 Ganado, ..rizona O Probably Balloon i
5 Ee ion lc SN ENC RAS SORE ei oP ibly Ball t
E 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION yh Mid crnit |
E 2100-2400 : 2 O Was Aircraft i
4 et rt si Sa a ko 1 el DO Ground-Rodar Q Probably Aircraft
MT___39 0 (DFO = UUs O AirVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar OD Possibly Aircraft !
Ee 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE OD Was Astronomical |
E a Yes O Probably Astronomical
| Q No Tl PE DO Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [n § Other_Pozcibl-r o dso
+ 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
g : ! DO Unknown i
E 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ~~ _poory © von [11 COMMENTS ivr ob oni cb dv 0jt indi:afe
E ribnesses with and without a telescope. Obit that it was probably some 1] Eaby iT
3 11% ribed as Ms pe lea’ ale PE ps vy : “vy Alar nr sd 3 SRR : k Th EL AN frat dma
A BET RO ae nade Oa es 4 SRT ETRbN istortad by atmosphare. Duration of
i 5 gen ral ly round and reddish-green through sighting and fact that witnesses nave

i pope. Cbjt appeared to stand still, speed up seen it on am other occasselion: tends

x uss away, cnange brightness, flash and to support this conclusion.
i cicker and to disaprear and reappear. General
: sition of objt did not change fm E.
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28996145