302545766.pdf

|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  30 October 65 30/2400Z | Overton, Nevada  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | BALLOON  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | The vivid description and realistic drawing presented, indicate an apparent sighting of an upper air research balloon as it burns  |
|  One |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  Not reported | Observer was looking for the comet through 7X50 binoculars when the object appeared as a brilliant silver sphere. First observer thought of the evening star, but was too far west of moon…

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION (AFSC)
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO 43433

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

REPLY TO ATTN OF: TDEW/UFO
SUBJECT: UFO Sighting, Overton, Nevada
DEC 21 1965

TO: Hq USAF SAFOI-CC (Mrs Hunt)

Reference the attached letter from Mrs [redacted] requesting information on her unidentified observation. The following is a suggested reply:

Dear Mrs [redacted]:

Your very vivid description and realistic drawing presented, indicate an apparent sighting of an upper air research balloon as it bursts. Balloons of this…

(BALLOON)
DEC 21 1965

TDEW/UFO
UFO Sighting, Overton, Nevada

Hq USAF SAFOX-CC (Mrs Hunt)

Reference the attached letter from [redacted] requesting information on her unidentified observation. The following is a suggested reply:

Dear [redacted]:

Your very vivid description and realistic drawing presented, indicate an apparent sighting of an upper air research balloon as it bursts. Balloons of this nature are launched by the U S Navy from Chico, California, and are generally programmed to fly between 80,000 feet and 125,000 feet. They can be destroyed at a predetermined time by use of detona…

TODD

I feel "foolish" for trying to report this...it perhaps is of no importance...but I would feel more foolish if it was important and I had not done so!

Saturday afternoon (Oct 31, 1965) between four and four thirty...went into exact time I was looking for one moment, with "7:50" field glasses almost full extension, and happened to pick up a brilliant silver sphere. First to went into a "evening star" (vmc) but recovered star was too west of noon. This object was much higher than a "bored band" but it appeared "relatively" the same size as the water in upper right of crescent of noon. Jus…

Hold sketch overhead for correct perspective

Silver spheres

Looking southward

Mrs. in Arizona
Cudron

dotted line shows degrees of oscillation

Plume

"pants"
MOLN - note crater 512

Mormonnesa west of Cudron

HEADQUARTERS
4520TH COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NEVADA 89110

REPLY TO ATTN OF: OI
29 November 1965

SUBJECT: UFO Report

TO: Foreign Technology Division (FTD)
AFSC
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

Attached is a UFO report. According to our Command Post records no Nellis aircraft were in the Overton area at that time on 30 October.

Joseph G. Martin
JOSEPH G MARTIN, Captain, USAF
Information Officer

4520 CCR TNG WG (CI)
NELLIS AFB NEV 89110
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
OFFICIAL BUSINESS