Project Blue Book Case File
Vicinity Winchester Bay, OregonSeptember 1960
Summary
I am unable to provide a reliable summary of this case. The OCR text from the case file is too severely degraded and incomplete to accurately reconstruct what was observed.
The first page's cover sheet indicates this is a September 1960 sighting near Winchester Bay, Oregon that the Air Force evaluated as "probably balloon." However, the remaining 14 pages of the file consist primarily of unrelated magazine articles about astronomy, satellites, and atmospheric phenomena. Pages 9 through 13 contain brief notes labeled "No Case (Information Only)" from other locations and dates (New Berlin, Wisconsin; Kingston, Massachusetts; Edmonton, Alberta), and page 14 is a table of dozens of other sightings.
The core investigative material for the Winchester Bay case itself either does not appear in these scans, or is too corrupted in the OCR to extract reliably. Without readable witness statements, investigative notes, or supporting documentation specific to this case, an accurate summary cannot be constructed.
The full case file as held by the National Archives comprises 14 scanned pages.
Reported location
Vicinity Winchester Bay, Oregon
Date of incident
September 1960
State / country
OR / US
Page count
14 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 40