Rantoul, Ill., June 1962June 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 Rantoul, Ill., June 1962 in June 1962. The full case file (5 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

Rantoul, Ill., June 1962

Date of incident

June 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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1 I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. COMCLUSIONS
1 ig 0 i : Lp 3 Vias Balloon
E { June 1862 HONCOWL, hl, 1 Probably Balloon
FONE AIT don nT J Ade ion SONS RIAL OO REAR rk Aen Behan ns AHN kee RA WB Spall A
EF 3. DATE-TIMZ GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 8 Fossibly Balloon
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7/9230 ve : 5% 0 Was Aircroft
3 REL i A a Nt al 2 0 d-Rad ri
: Local So i Ground- Visual Ground-Redar E Probably Aircraft
- (+ Ti PRE AE 07 A RR GO Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar | Possibly Aircraft
: 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE eee TE j Pe EEN [8] Was Astronomical
: Q Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
3 5 No Military 0 Possibly Astronomical
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE B- Other. POSs Moon.
; 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
8 Ary 4 : 3 0 Unknown
| § 3-4 Min, L in the VY
| 3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
FE £ pear shaped object, pinkish orange in color [The object responsible for this sighting
1 and size of a grapefruit wes sighted in a was probably the setting moon. Absolute
| 8 westerly direction from Rantoul, Ill. Witness [time for moon set at the witnesses loda-
stated that object radiatzd from bottom and [tion waz 2326. Absolute time at witnesse:
& moved: in what thought to be a westerly dir- location was 2318. Direction of moon fm
| - Land dt Aan 2 rad Ser ackad = Rg Jy Ql lh $2 on pp Lot FE Sr a TC 3 A Ad
| jection, Sighting lasted 3-4 min. Sighting gyitnesses ad his hour was 280°. Atmos-
t 3 ER EER aE Ea ~ 7} proume , aiRL Ra] YG, PUM | on 15-9 - -
| 3 occurred at 2310 local on 7 June 1962. pheric refraction probably distorted
| 8 moon and contributed to misidentificatiox.
i On 7 June satellite was only 21% illumin
1 ated as seen from earth. Thus it was onl
i partial mocn which was distorted. Fach
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onaC tne signting ended at approx ima
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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1962 1962-06-01