Vicinity Canton, OhioMay 1961

Unidentified

Summary

The OCR quality of this case file is too poor to support an accurate summary. While the document clearly contains Air Force questionnaire forms related to a UFO sighting near Canton, Ohio in May 1961, most of the witness narrative pages are either blank, heavily redacted, or so degraded by scanning that the specific details of what was observed cannot be reliably extracted from the text. The USAF ultimately rated this case as unidentified. The full case file, comprising 13 pages as held by the National Archives, is reproduced below.

Reported location

Vicinity Canton, Ohio

Date of incident

May 1961

State / country

OH / US

Page count

13 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 13

Transcribed text

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION a oonciiens = |
: GC 5 lo Was Balloon
| 3 Probably Balloon
5 Er ————— PARA REESE ———, Baca thio a
1. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 7 Shigeki Bag dead |
l] / tea .
{ RON! SANE 0 Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Radar 19 Was ar raf
1 Probably Airerafr !
oy AR reat rer Os nen SN OR FP 0 Air Vi wal 0 Air<Inter cept rR dar |o Fossibl 4 \ircrafy
S. PHOTOS IE EE Th B Wis Ashonomtcal
O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
C-Ne | ie fy gi ] O Possibly Astronomical i
7. LENGTH OF 03323VATION | 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |O Other : RE |
| O9< Insufficient Data for Evaluction
- i . [OD Unknown |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | [1+ 8, E COMMENTS 1” ne - R
:9 - 1 ve : } ? a - Wal 2
| .
| SS EE ESET a ES LR NS al
ATIC FORM 329 (RTV 26 S22 32)
LJ

/ 13

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28992701

Connected across the archive

Places

Ohio Vicinity Canton, OH

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1961 1961-05-01