Mooseheart, IllinoisJuly 1959

Insufficient Data

Summary

On a July evening in 1959, members of a group at Mooseheart, Illinois saw a silvery disc-shaped object in the sky to the south, in the general direction of Aurora. The sighting occurred around 8 p.m., near sunset. The witnesses reported that scattered clouds filled the sky, but not around the object itself. Beyond these basic details, the case file contains very little information about what the witnesses observed or how long they watched the object.

The Air Force's formal evaluation of this sighting does not appear in the available pages of this case file. The case consists of eight scanned pages from microfilm, but most of those pages document unrelated sightings in Washington State from the same period. The Mooseheart sighting itself is recorded only on the initial report form and one brief handwritten note.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 8 pages.

Reported location

Mooseheart, Illinois

Date of incident

July 1959

State / country

IL / US

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 8

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BE ni PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
i : O Was Balloon
I 15 Jal 59 Mooaeheart, Illinois O Probably Balloon
3: BE es bers EP Fe — i H
Fo 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ql Faseibly. Balloon

. 2000 : liv x O Was Aircraft

L Local = = 1:8 Ground-VYisuadl 0 Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft

i MT 16/02007 O Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft

| 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical

| 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical

a na Ale O Possibly Astronomical

| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BORE lesen

fe Oc Insufficient Data for Evaluation

. i 0 Unknown

Ee not given 1 not given

FE 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

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3 ‘l the South. No other info given.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28983862