PROJECT BLUE BOOK

3. DATE-TIME GROUP

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
2. LOCATION

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5. PHOTOS

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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

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10, BRIEF

Rnd, white light, compared to size of

SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

4%. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

& Ground- Vi sual
0 Air Vi sual

OUF

Civilian

rising sun, Observer awakened by a
light on bedroom wall similar to that
caused by headlights of auto turning
in driveway. Three other persons sight
ed bluish-white to green obj in same

area,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

© Ground-Reder

© Air-intercept Rodar

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8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE

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11. COMMENTS

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12. CONC .USIONS

Wes Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircraft
Possibly Aircroft

Was Astronomico! ... .-OTr

Probebly Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

Other

Insufficient Deta for Evaluetion

Unknown

Probability of a meteor,

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COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

D/ Intelligence, Hq SAC 18 Aug _
SOURCE OF INFORMATION DATE OF INFORMATION
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PREPARING OFFICER

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REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, ate., as epplicalie)
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SUMMARY (Enter concise summary of report. Gise significance in final one-sentence paragraph, List incloeures at lower left. Bogin text of report on AF Form 1182.)

Several persone in the Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska areas reported
observations of an intense light in the form of a flash, then a glowing green
object traveling in a northerly direction during the early morning hours of

12 Aug 58 (U)

Ho evaluation attempted, although the probability of a meteorite exists,

Major, USAF
Chief, Capabilities Branch

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Colonel, USAF
Chief, Air Estimates Division

Gassification Cancelled
OR Chen zed to Lie

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1. DD 96, Shh Wc, 2 cys
2. Cy of clipping, Omaha World Herald, 2 cys

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DISPOSITION FORM

SUBJECT

To D/I, SAC FROM Comdr, 544th RIG DATE 12 Aug 58 ,,e COMMENT NO. 1
ATTN: DIEC RTGI/Maj Robso /je1/25ek€

1. IAW par 15, AFR 200-2, the following pertains to a report of an Unidentified
Flying Object received by Major Herbert W Robson, extension 25248, of this

organization:

a. Description of object:

1) (Round

2) Compared to size of(rising sun> at estimated distance of 1/4 mile

3) CWhite Ligh

4) One

5) Not applicable IMP@ $s ble

6) None reported :

7) None reported F

8) None reported 4 a €- /

None
9 7 'C isrer
b. Déscription of course: :

(1) «Observer was awakéned by: pt_on bedroom wall similar to that
caused by headlights of automobile turning in évivever:.

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3 — as (2) above.

in horizontal motion throughout sighting. iM what direc,” (of

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Sighted continously Dicay > 0 0 One minute. di d Obs Meve %

Cc. Manner of observation:
hme, on Sate, $a .z?

2) No optical aids,

3 Ground - visual.
3) Not applicable.

d. Time and date of sighting:
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(2) 0330, 12 August - local time, -@P SC - O

2) Night.
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e. Observer lives on a farm near Bebetown, Iowa, Place can be reached/\by
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f. Identifying information on observer:
1) Civilienqui, wife of farmer, Bebetown, Iowa. Telephone:

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D/F, RTGI, S44uRTG, 12 Aug 58, Subj: UF 0
@- Weather - unknown.

h. General: Observer awakened husband, but object was gone before he
could see it. Observer waited for public news regarding object - but heard none
by time she reported it to the Air Force at 0850 hours local. She knows of no
other witnesses. Mr ommenced report then gave telephone to wife for
details. Both parties w coherent, cooperative, and concerned regarding value
of information to the Air Force. Telephone obviously was being monitored on
rural party line. No attempt was made to withold names; on location investigation

was solicited.

Ufarrvecec ard Smite Ct
C RA , Major, USAF

Director of Administrative Services

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Omaha World Herald
13 August 1958

Glowing a’ in Night Sky
Definitely Wasn't Satellite

A Lincoln resident and two Omahans reported seeing an unusual bright
light in the sky about 3:30 a.m, Tuesday.

No explanation was apparent immediately, "It could not have been a
satellite," said Lynn Anspaugh, ecting observer in charge of the Moonmvatch
etation at Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln,

The only remaining Russian satellite in the sky passed over the Lincdn
area about 11 p.m. The American Explorer is passing over the erea during
the day, is not visible to ground observers, he said,

The Sputnik III will pass just west of Lincoln at 10:39 p.m, Wednesday
and about 10:24 Thursday, he added,

‘Tuesday's reports came from:

Gaesa™. Wesleyan watchman, who said he sew the object
travel thwest at 3:28 a.m. He said it was "a bluish white,

intensely brilliant oval with a very short yellow-rced teil, apvearing to
be about half the sise of the moon."

=e. +: was reporting to work at the City Market, 511
South Elev reet, e& about 3:30 a.m. He called it "a blue flame es
dig as a basket ball, traveling straight west."

2 Siege. who happened to be awake and
glanced out aw & 325 or 3:30. She said ehe the impression of a
grtesh.” then * glowing eraan_chiect_ traveling north, then turning west.

It was bigger t a star," she said,

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1006TH AIR INTELLIGENCE SERVICE SQUADRON
United States Air Force
Ent Air Force Base, Colorado

ALHOP 25 SEP 1958

Sin CTs UFO Inoidert in Lincoln an? Cnna, “ebrxas cx

TOs Oo.t2andor
Air Technical Intelligences Cexter
AvTiis AFCI:. 44° ,
WrighteFattersor Air Forc: “ase, Ohio

1. Reference message from ATSIN=4E4 3-1994-2, 02/16152 Sen 52.
2. M/Sgt Jerroi 2. Clar":, AS 16003951, of Vetuchant 2

AISS, Richards-Gebaur Air force Base, -issouri investigat:4
incident 4 Sep 5S with the follow'ng results:

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a. Tho Source, -rs. who formorlty resid-d nocr

Beebeetown, Iowa, has subsequently moved to Si Streat, uolcen,
Colorado, pone and was not interviacved. ‘ler Gav cnoct,
living in 3 sbheetown, was interviewed but could acd little to wast wes

already known. ‘tesiztonts of Sesbeetown who were contacte- hu no
knowledge of the obj:ct nor had tiey heard that one isd been sighosd.

b. Local residents spoke highly of .irs se arc wora aL.
of the opinion that she was a level-headed person ant not of an oxciserile

nature. The police of iissouri Valley, Iowa, about 7 miles orthvest
of Beebeetown, had no ‘nowledge of the sighting, nor did they now te

Source,

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ce The attached sketch, inclosure 1, shows roughly the ¢a
area of %cebeetown. According to Source's daughtor, .rs. ‘Jiller w.
not awakened by the licht as the T!! states, but rether bth:t she -::
unable to sleep and was sitting up in bed wnen shoe first notiecd °.
light at point "X", It (the light) procecded to coint "Z" alonz .-2 sop
of the hill "3" at a supposedly low altituce on a foncrul ‘ortheass io
Southwest course. ‘The interviewer could not ascertain if 1 sound
accompanied the light nor if it actually disacpearod behivrd true tracs

or disappeared in the distance.

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3. Attacned as inclosure 2 is c report of woat’:-r concitions «%
Offutt A£3B on 12 August 1958.

FOR Ti! SOPriANDERs

2 Incls [Make D

1. Sketch of sighting Area Major, U
2. Weather Rpt, Offutt AFB Administrative Offi

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DETACHMENT 2

3rd Weather Wing
United States Air Force

TOs Commander .
Richards-Gebaur AFB, Mo.
le The weather at Offutt AFB at 03300

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

05 September 1958

SUBJECT: Weather and Winds for Offutt AFB on 12 August 58

Det 2, 1006th Air Intelligence Service Sq.

12 Aug 58 was as followss

0326C Clear, Visibility 4 miles with ground fog and smoke,

- 0341C Clear, Visibility 4 miles with ground fog and smoke

There were no thunderstorms in the

2. The winds aloft for this period are
0600Z and 1200Z for the héights requesteds

0600Z Winds Aloft
6000' 340/10
10000' 310/06
16000" 300/14
20000' 350/23
23000" 340/15

area at this time.

indicated below at

1200Z Winds Aloft
6000' 330/09
10000" 010/19
16000' 320/24
20000’ 330/20
30000’ 340/42
50000" 320/21
80000' 010/12

Major, USAF

Detachment Commander