Oak Park, IllinoisMarch 1954

Unidentified

Summary

In 1954, a fast moving object was reported over Oak Park, Illinois. The witnesses were civilians, and the sighting was made from the ground at 0030 Zulu time. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Four people saw the object, three of them teenage boys. They described a round, silver fireball moving at a high rate of speed on a straight course. It was traveling north and was estimated to be at a very high altitude. It disappeared shortly after being seen. The weather was mostly clear. There was no radar pickup.

The Air Force concluded the object was a meteor.

Reported location

Oak Park, Illinois

Date of incident

March 1954

State / country

IL / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 20

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
Oak Park, Illinois 8 Petr Bates
3. DATE-TING OROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATIC orga 0 Possibly Balloon
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(1) BE ha O Air Viel O Airintercopt Roder |D Possibly Aircraft
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0 Probably Astrenemicel
civilian O Possibly Astronemicel
OBSERY NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Be
0 Unknown
BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS : i
Round silver firebally high rate of speed, No radar pickup
straight course. : Several (4) observers - 3 were teenage :
. boys. 3
Meteor. !
ATIC PORM 339 (REV 26 S8P 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28957918