Nebraska & South Dakota, October 1962October 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Nebraska & South Dakota, October 1962 in October 1962. The full case file (6 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 46.

Reported location

Nebraska & South Dakota, October 1962

Date of incident

October 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

hr 4 a Le a
pe ‘ . PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD SE |
1. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Ihe
O Was Balloon
a 0 Probably Balloon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF a ¢ Sout W Tiny Bedeen |
oo i i i XXGround- Visual O Ground-Radar 5 Srobekry Rivard
omT__19/0245 XXAir Visual O Air-Intercept Radar | DO Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOUR Was A ical
0 Yes BI Probaly Aestumonien TOF
X No Civilian & Militar GC Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BY DT iia iis
i ; O Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
O Unknown
| not rptd one NW |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS we
Multiple rpts of obj believed to have Rpting officer contacted in |
: hit Parker Peak, South Dakota. efdort to determine if meteor |
i Exploded. Described as meteor like landed and any possibility of
i trailing a cone of fire about eight times// recovery. Efforts were
4 longer than main body. Lit up area negative, SPADATS contacted
1 about 100 miles around, Some obsvrs and no decays this date, (Going ;
rptd hissing sound accompanied the West anyway) Multiple sighting
| object. of meteor, |
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) | | |
| | a 5

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999557

Connected across the archive

Installations

Offutt Air Force Base

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1962 1962-10-01