Irondequoit, New YorkJuly 1959

Unidentified

Summary

On July 5, 1959, at approximately 2000 to 2030 hours (8:00 to 8:30 p.m.), a witness in Irondequoit, New York, saw an unidentified object in the sky. The object was brownish-black with a white bubble or sphere in its center. The front edges appeared thicker than the trailing edges, and the overall shape resembled a quarter moon with a part trailing off the back. No sound was heard. The witness observed the object for only seconds, but reported it moved with tremendous speed and performed maneuvers.

The Air Force concluded it was unable to determine what the witness saw. The file notes that while a meteor was considered as a possibility, this explanation did not fully account for the object's apparent maneuverability and the level of detail the witness reported observing in such a brief time period. Without radar confirmation, additional witnesses, or physical evidence, investigators had insufficient data to reach a firm conclusion.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, spanning 32 pages of scanned documents.

Reported location

Irondequoit, New York

Date of incident

July 1959

State / country

NY / US

Page count

32 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

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Gs pis PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD f :

E 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONGLUSIONS *
a 0 Was Balloon |
E 05 Tul 59 Irondequoit, liew York By niohdny Bl son

E 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION iat ima dy

Ie ; i 0 Was Aircraft

EF [Eyre [too Halos paes ir per E2Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar O Probably Aircraft |
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i GMT___ 2510007 Jul 59 2 0 AirVisual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

3 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical

I O Yes O Probably Astronomical |
jis. tookaie 0 Possibly Astronomical |
i Er No Civilian f

E 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE OOther LIIDENTINIED

I O Insufficient Data for Evaluation | |
fol 0 Unknown

3 Ban aan ] N-E

FE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

i Brownish-black obj w/a white bubble in No conclusion was reached as to the

{ ‘I center, lio sound, Edges in front seemed a cause of the sighting & the case is .

i little thicker than trailing edges. Shape carried as unidentified. Possibility

3 was roughly a "quarter-moon" w/a part trail- that obj was a meteor, however, this

i ing off the trailing edge. Obj had tremen- dows not account for the supposed

3 dous speed, maneuver & the amount of detail obtainpd
EF by the witness in the extremely short

4 duration that the obj was in sight.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28983926