Skip to content
← Research library

Archive case record

Waynesville, North Carolina, October 1961

Date of account
1961-10
Location
Waynesville, North Carolina
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

View the original source ↗

Record summary

Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

Published source text

Read the available text below. Archive transcriptions may contain OCR errors; later context is labelled separately. A recorded claim is not a finding that it happened.

Source page 1

Source text · mention only

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1..DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 WasBalloon 50ct61 Waynesville,North Carolina D Probobly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possibly Balloon Local. 2150 ETGroundVisuo! 口Ground-Redar 口 WosAircrafy 口 Probably Aircroft 060250Z GMT D AirVisuol Air-Intorcopt Rodar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical DY.. 口 Probably Astronomicol XONo Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE Other. Insufficient Data for Evaluation 1 N-S Unknowm Not given 10. BRIEF sUWMARY oF SIGHTINGSilver Objt, larger than ll.coMMENrsWitness watched objt through a/c.ppeared to be spinning.3lightsk like telescope,yet could not determine az or neon.Disappeared to N. elevation,suggesting that he did not knop how to use a telescope. witness did not know how long the objt was in view.Appar ently only thing he knew was that

View this source page ↗

Investigate related details with Anomaly Graph’s account-based search, or read how matching and provenance work.