Steelville, MissouriSeptember 1962

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In September 1962, a resident of Steelville, Missouri reported seeing unidentified objects that appeared to come from the sky and land in trees near their home. The same objects also landed on nearby Highway 8. According to the witness, this happened frequently.

The witness claimed that when the objects landed, they caused interference with their television set, disrupting the picture. The objects moved from south to west and were visible for what the report describes as "six to eight in the evening," though the exact timing is unclear in the document. The witness stated they could see the object on the TV screen when it landed.

The Air Force Office of Information received the original report in a letter to the President. An internal memo from September 24, 1962 recommended that a Missouri-based investigator look into the sighting. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) conducted the investigation. According to the case file, the OSI report indicated that the witness was "mentally disturbed in connection with these sightings."

The Air Force's official evaluation checked the box for "possibly balloon" on the case record card. The comments section notes that TV activity was "probably due to aircraft interference from scheduled air lines," and suggests that other interpretations of the visual sightings could be due to hallucination. The case file reproduces 8 pages as held by the National Archives.

Reported location

Steelville, Missouri

Date of incident

September 1962

State / country

MO / US

Page count

8 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 8

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; : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
“8 0 Was Balloon
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF ORSERVATION SEE ossibly Balloon
tory > : Vi : [J Was Aircraft
LEE BE SERS B3Ground- Visual ols dsb Q Probobly Aircraft |
"i i JE RDN SY SR, O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
O Yes 1 Probably Astronomical
| S Ko Civilian : 0 Possibly Astronomical
| | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 5S other__Hallucinations
0 Insufficient Doto for Evaluation |
0 Unknown
| - - = one, two - ~~ =
i BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
B | Objects came from sky and landed in TV activity probably due to a/c
trees. Also landed on highway 8 in interference fm scheduled air-
Missouri, Object does this frequently lines. Other interpretations of
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and the TV set doesn't work, Picture visual sightings due to nhallucina-
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af object also picked up on TV when tion, Case investigated by OSI.
it lands, Movement fm South to West. Original report in letter to Presi-
got io sit ob bd minutes det of U,S, OSI report indicates
to eight in the evening. witness mentally disturbed in
connection with these sightings.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999085