Project Blue Book Case File
Vicinity Ottawa, OhioApril 1958
Summary
On the night of April 25, 1958, an observer near Ottawa, Ohio saw two separate objects in the sky. The first was a long, cigar-shaped object that changed color from brilliant red to brilliant white to bluish white and orange. It moved rapidly toward the southwest. About eight minutes later, the observer spotted a second object that was round and larger than a star, and this one appeared to stay in one place in the sky.
The U.S. Air Force investigated the sighting and recorded it in Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official UFO investigation program. The form notes that the first object had features "strongly suggestive of meteor," and that the second object was "possibly moon." The case was evaluated as "probably balloon" with an alternative possibility of "possibly balloon."
The OCR quality of the remaining pages of this file is poor, making it difficult to extract additional investigative details with confidence. The full case file, as preserved by the National Archives, spans 7 pages of microfilm (T1206, Roll 32).
Reported location
Vicinity Ottawa, Ohio
Date of incident
April 1958
State / country
OH / US
Page count
7 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 32