Little Rock, ArkansasNovember 1962

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On November 5, 1962, a civilian reported a bright star-colored elongated object about three feet long with a vapor trail above it near Little Rock, Arkansas. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. The object was observed at 25 degrees elevation in the southeast and faded as the sun rose. An Air Force investigation concluded the sighting resulted from Operation Firefly, a military flare operation conducted at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida at the same time. The Air Force found no physical evidence of an unknown object.

Reported location

Little Rock, Arkansas

Date of incident

November 1962

State / country

AR / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 5 November 1962

2. LOCATION: Little Rock, Arkansas

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local GMT 05/1130Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual

5. PHOTOS: [checkbox] Yes [checkbox] XXXNo

6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 30 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one

9. COURSE: [blank]

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Single bright star-colored object, elongated, about 3 feet in length with vapor trail above object. Observed for 30 minutes poor to dawn. Faded with rising of sun. Object at 25 dgr elevation in SE.

11. COMMENTS: Rpt that Operation Firefly in progress at Eglin, this operation accounts for the vapor trails. Star or lst rising in SE. Would be dimmed with rising of sun about 30 minutes later. However, the object was reported at a 25 dgr elevation & this would tend to rule out Astro bodies, since no lst magnitude objects were in the rptd position. Case evaluated as Operation Firefly effects.

12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkboxes present but not marked clearly]

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999745