Lowry AFB, ColoradoJuly 1954

Insufficient Data

Summary

On July 9, 1954, military and civilian witnesses near Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, reported shining specks high in the sky. The sighting lasted about 35 minutes. Witnesses saw 4 or 5 shining objects that appeared triangular and seemed able to hover in place, then move off.

The witnesses included Air Force flight service officers and civilian United Air Lines flight dispatchers. They had been watching a B-36 type aircraft making passes over the area at about 30,000 feet when they noticed the objects. One report estimated the objects very high and moving northeast.

Investigators noted that an exercise called Operation Check Point was being held in the area, with B-36 aircraft involved. The Air Force record card said the report sounded like a cluster balloon observation and listed it as insufficient data for evaluation.

Reported location

Lowry AFB, Colorado

Date of incident

July 1954

State / country

CO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

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: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

- | (RES = I Aa eS 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

E 9 Julv 195. Tibi Aq iy 0 Vos Balloon

| | 7 ve 195 Lowry AFB, Colorado o Probably Balloon

3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ERE OR hl lo

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: | Local —— Q Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 3 Bidbably Albers
| CMT C9, 20202 0 Air Visual 0 Air-intercapt Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft |
8 5, PHOTOS 4. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical |
; 0 Yes DO Probably Astronomical
TNs Military and Civilan O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE bo Ot herotemiient sv cilia Bota bi
8 plates glen) Dota for Evaluation
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35 Minutes K/éB L Or 5 NW

3 10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

LL 4, Or 5 shining specks hovering in area for Sounds like cluster ballcon chservation.

. 8 35 minutes. Insufficisnt data for evaluation.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28958953