Grand Forks, North DakotaOctober 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On October 8, 1961, two military witnesses about ten miles west of Grand Forks, North Dakota, reported an object at about 7:00 p.m. local time. The men were driving a car when they saw it. The object had the shape of a disc, about the size of a dime at arm's length. Its color went from white to yellow and cream to red. One object was seen. It first appeared at about 45 degrees elevation, passed in front of the car, was briefly lost behind trees, then reappeared and flew parallel to the car. It stopped, then moved off to the southeast and slowly went below the horizon. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes. A preliminary investigation found no explanation. The Air Force listed the case as insufficient data.

Reported location

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Date of incident

October 1961

State / country

ND / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 44

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: fos daa PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
1 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS jE
1 Re ey : 0 Was Balloon
| 8 Oct 61 Grand Forks, liorth Dakota O Probobly Balloon
E 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION A Pov Aci ong
i 1900 O Wos Aircraf
xn 3 3 os Aircraft
E Boral casino Ground-Yisuol 1 Ground-Rodar 0 Probobly Aircroft
E NAF i i
= GMT 0901027 D AirVisval 0 Air-intercept Rodar 0 Possibly Airerofr
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Wes Askinisntedl
gE 0 Yes Tiny 0 Probobly Astroncmical
3 No Military O Possibly Astronomical
4 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE OIE i ak ibo siin
: BX Insufficient Dore for Evaluation
: 15 min 1 | Varied Ri ch dct
2 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |" COMMENTS
E This report does not contain sufficient Rx In7cito allow = Yalid conclusion. Thare is som
a cause to believe that witnesses were gcod|ch:
E servers, ie they reported sighting objt to IW zi an elev of 45°, A short man might view
E an angle of 30° elev through a car windshield without some special effort but tae rule
: would be something less than 30°. Since this wz§ winter the windows were prcbaly up;
4 therefore, due to this fact and noise of car zocor noise of another source would not be
2 heard unless it was of considerable volume. It is possible that this objt was zn a/c
E misidentified by witnesses due to their inabiliiy to see details and possible due tC an
E exaggeration of the motions ascribed to objt <i to motion of witnesses.
4 This case is classed as In:pfficient Evidence.
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