Greensboro, North CarolinaJune 1963

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Summary

On the evening of June 14, 1963, a witness in Greensboro, North Carolina reported seeing an unusual bright light in the sky. At 11:50 p.m., the object first appeared as an extremely bright flash that streaked across the meridian (the north-south line passing directly overhead) and moved toward the north. The witness then observed what seemed to be a star that moved slightly eastward.

The object behaved in ways that puzzled the witness. It moved with jerky, uneven motion, with sudden changes in direction that lacked the smooth, uniform speed of a typical aircraft. The witness initially considered it might be an airplane running light, but the object appeared to be at an extremely high altitude and its running lights were not visible. One distinctive feature stood out: the object moved like a weather balloon except that it crossed the horizon too quickly to be a balloon.

The sighting lasted about 18 minutes. A Wing Intelligence Officer from Pope Air Force Base forwarded the report to the Air Force's central UFO investigation office for evaluation. Page 8 of the file contains what appears to be a series of observational records with timestamps, positions (north or south of the city), altitude angles, and movement directions spanning from June 10 through June 16, though the OCR text is too garbled to extract clear details from these entries.

The Air Force concluded that the object was probably a balloon. The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, comprising 8 pages.

Reported location

Greensboro, North Carolina

Date of incident

June 1963

State / country

NC / US

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 48

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 8

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| Nae PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD aR re |
* [ oare 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
E 0 Wos Ball

| 14 June 1963 Greensboro, North Carolina (a) Probably Balloon
| [3 DATE-TIME GROUP i. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 8. [esl sy Sian

E Jig ea) ibm mms En LL TE IX Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar < 4 a a sralt |
3 onTLo/04k52 O AirVisual O Air-Intercept Rador O Possibly Aireraft |
| |S. PHOTOS . R : O Was Astronomical
E | O Yes O Probably Astronemical i
i tl Ne civilian O Possibly Astronomical
1 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |p Oesatellite RCHO.T_ | |
1 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation |
' | 18 min one . NE O Unknown |
| [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Jr 11. COMMENTS ; i
* |Extremely bright meteorite flashed from the
! |meridian to the North. Then saw star that move At 1150 PM, ?ECHO was heading NE North

| very slightly to the East. Thought to be of the city at Li deg elevation, in a

# | running light of a/c , but believed to be at position to be observed by the witness
| |extremel altitude and running lights not visible. |
* | Nothing other than light. Peculiarity in that
¢ | speed lacked uniformity and had sudden lateral |
! | movements. Jerky motion emphasised. Moved like
! | WX balloon except it went over horizon too fast.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29001127