Lafayette, Ind., April 1950April 1950

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Summary

Around April 1950, in or near Lafayette, Indiana, the Air Force opened a record about a man who contacted them. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for unidentified flying object reports. The record card gives almost no details about an actual sighting.

The card notes that the source claimed to have the solution to the so called flying saucer mystery. It also notes the man held a questionable discharge from the Air Force, described in the file as possibly for mental instability. The bulk of the attached pages is a long magazine article by a different person describing a separate 1950 sighting near Red Bud, Illinois.

The record does not provide a clear who, what, when, and where for a sighting tied to the Lafayette case itself. The Air Force card lists no firm conclusion.

Reported location

Lafayette, Ind., April 1950

Date of incident

April 1950

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28937845