Portland Mills, Indianapolis ---Indiana, May 1962May 1962

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Portland Mills, Indianapolis ---Indiana, May 1962 in May 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 45.

Reported location

Portland Mills, Indianapolis ---Indiana, May 1962

Date of incident

May 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

a PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
E PE CI Ce IS SC eS EAS NS Se SE re a SE
: 1. DATE ° |% LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 1) ~ 9d | avy et Ta Ee .
OY vlan MLllo ANA13aNaAvoLi
; Rockville 3 Was Bolloon
§ + / = Greencastle - Indiana 1 Probably Bollinon
3. DATE-TIME GAOUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 5 14. Tossiby Beiter
- sh \ . 3 Was Aicraf?
HT Ee for 0S Ral ERR NA Ue DO Pr 728 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-*ndar @ Probably Airerafr
GMT... Lela 0 Al=Visual 1 Ale-lntareent Rador 0 Possibly Airerait
i 5. PHOTOS uv. SJURCE 1 Was Astronomical
; CQ Yoo tJ Probobly Astronomical
k ~~ J Fall Tr ir 1 Pozsibly Astronomical
SESE. DARE SIC ENR Se MER Ad f..1 1 | SR RTE :
i 7. LENGTH CF DA3ZRVATION {2 MUMBER OF O4JECTS | 9. COURSE MN Other i000
| J Insufficiant Dota far Evaluation
3 igen ; { : - | Unknown
K i Se JER | 4 4 i A ia
4 ee EE ery aE a Te pe SE CR RTE a
10, BRIEX SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11. COMMENTS
b A large object col ored Ww ite, blue, y 11 0ow., Obje ak in 1 sse 5 1 ch ra bor 544 "
3 orange, red was observed IOr 3-5 seconds of a fireba ind in absence of any
hi by a number of witnesses in state of satellite re-entry, hich would be
g Indiana. Object was glowing bright and had described in the same general manner
tail. Was reported to bz moving generally is concluded to be a meteor of this
toward tha BE at high spesd disappearing type. There is no evidence available
E wer norizon. which indicates object was not a
fireball.
OR A PC
4 ATIC PORM 319 (REV 25 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28997388

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1962 1962-05-01