Naperville, IllinoisMarch 1963

Unidentified

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Naperville, Illinois in March 1963. The full case file (2 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 47.

Reported location

Naperville, Illinois

Date of incident

March 1963

State / country

IL / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 17 March 1963
2. LOCATION: Naperville, Illinois
12. CONCLUSIONS: [X] Insufficient Data for Evaluation

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local [illegible] 1:49/0940Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [X] Ground-Visual

5. PHOTOS: [X] No
6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: not reported
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
9. COURSE: SE

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Continuous blue glow observed in flight from NW to SE by two Naperville Illinois policemen. No tail.

11. COMMENTS: Insufficient data for analysis.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29000413

Connected across the archive

People

THOMAS A. HIRQUIST

Organizations

64TH TROOP CARRIER SQUADRON, MEDIUM (RESERVE)Air Force Systems Command Foreign Technology Division

Installations

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Places

Chicago 66, Illinois Illinois Naperville, IL Naperville, Illinois O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio