Mellette, South DakotaMarch 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On March 28, 1961, a civilian woman near Mellette, South Dakota, reported sightings to the Air Force. The report describes a letter she wrote to the Secretary of Defense, asking for action against flying saucers she said were shooting down planes and killing servicemen. She described an incident in which two jets were attacked by the saucers south of her farm. She said she sees the objects all the time. The observation was listed as lasting about 50 minutes, with one object, and the course was marked unreliable.

On Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports, the comments said the witness probably saw something and distorted her impressions into the account given. The card listed insufficient data and treated the report as unreliable.

Reported location

Mellette, South Dakota

Date of incident

March 1961

State / country

SD / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ;
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
28 darch 1961 Mellette, South Dakota 8 Probetly Suleen
: 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Foon: Sieen
Local 1845-1610 XX Ground-Vi sual O Ground-Redar 0 Was Aircraft
0 Probably Aircraft
GMT 29 00457 0 AirVisvol O Air-Intercept Rodor O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
O Yes DO Probably Astronomical
£X No Civilian OD Possibly Astronomicol
} 7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE tX OrheeUnrelisble.
i N O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
' D Unknown
; 50 Min. One
————————————————————————————————————————————————————— A ——————————————— A A i.
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Ltr to Secy of Defense asking for action » | Witness probably saw something and ids-
against flying saucers that are shooting down | torted her impressions into above tale.
out planes and killing our sons. Two Jets Duration of over cne hour for the sight-
were attacked by saucers S of her farm. Sees ings earlier in month are probably re-
them all time, usually from 7:45 pm to 8:50 fraction of astronomical bodies. Any-
pm. Tonight they were early so encounter thing this lady sees in air and cannot
with Jets. After supposed attack on jets by identify is a saucer. Sightings include;
saucers, Jjets threw in afterburner and escaped.lMar 1 of Venus, lar 2 Insufficient Data
Observation of preceding evening with surveyorpMar 10 Venus. No reports of mushroom
yor it. Also 2 aide seeing atomic blast clouds; no reports from a/c were
musnroom cloud received.
ATIC FORM 3129 (REV 26 SEP 32) :
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