Platte County, MissouriAugust 1955

Unidentified

Summary

On August 1955 in Platte County, Missouri, a civilian witness reported seeing a strange light over more than two hours after dark. The light moved up and down like a rotating aircraft, moved forward and backward, and seemed stationary at times before moving with tremendous bursts of speed. It had a fluorescent blue color with lights on its edge that appeared to be windows flying off. The object then turned reddish and glowed with a high-pitched hum the witness could feel. The Air Force concluded the sighting was likely overactive imagination, possibly caused by viewing Venus and Jupiter below the horizon at that time.

Reported location

Platte County, Missouri

Date of incident

August 1955

State / country

MO / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: Aug 55

2. LOCATION: Platte County, Missouri

12. CONCLUSIONS:
- Was Balloon
- Probably Balloon
- Possibly Balloon
- Was Aircraft
- Probably Aircraft
- Possibly Aircraft
- Was Astronomical
- Probably Astronomical
- Possibly Astronomical
- Other [illegible]
- Insufficient Date for Evaluation
- Unknown

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local one hour after dark

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION:
- Ground-Visual (checked)
- Ground-Radar
- Air-Visual
- Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS:
- Yes
- No (checked)

6. SOURCE: civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: over 2 hours

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one

9. COURSE: not reported

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING:
Strange light moving up and down like rotary a/c. Moved forward and back, seemed stationary at times and then would move with tremendous burst of speed. Strange light came on and off at bottom. Flourescent blue color, had lights on edge with what appeared to be windows flying off bluish then reddish glow. High pitched hum that could be felt more than heard.

11. COMMENTS:
Overactive imagination, probably. Venus and Jupiter and Mars below the horizon chopann after sunset through out the month of Aug 55. Case reported in letter form 1950. No positional data or manner of disappearance included. Case too old to investigate. Carried as other (unreliable report.)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28963048