PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8684858

DATE OF SIGHTINGAugust 1963

REPORTED LOCATIONFairfield Illinois

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION a 12. CONCLUSIONS
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Possibly Balloon

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HEADQUARTERS
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

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Wash 25 DC

Reference the attached letter ee dated

h Oct 63, requesting information on unidentified.flying objects.
This letter is forwarded to your office for whatever action you
deem necessary.

FOR THE COMMANDER

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October 21, 1963

Dear Mr.“

This is in response to your recent letter in
which you report seeing an unusual light in the
skies over Fairfield, Illinois om August 10th,

The earlier sighting which took place at
Fairfield was definitely established as two objects,
first the moon, and then the planet Jupiter. Your
Sighting is very characteristic of a large beam of
light emanating from the ground to the sky, such as
@ searchlight or klieg light. Such a beam, when
SHining froma distance, gives the appearance of
darting around the sky, stopping, then retracing
4¢+s long sweep, then stopping again with no apparent
oattern except that chosen by the person or persons
who control the light at its source. Due to rerraction,
this light or lights may give the appearance of changing
color. Atmospheric conditions also give strange appear-
ances to otherwise easily explainable phenomena.

It is impossible to give you the exact route
followed by the Air Force investigators during their
investizgation of the original Fairfield sizhting.
They traversed the original route reported by the
young man who first saw what he considered an uni-
dentified flying object, but they also went over the
entire area, so that it would be difficult to report
any constant route which might have been taken,

Since there are only a minute percentage of cases
which have remained unsolved, and these only because
the information given to the investigators was too
meager to provide enough evidence for investigation,
4t may be assumed that your sighting had a logical
explanation. Ycu may have seen more than one object,
such as Echo satellite plus a searchlight.

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To date there has been no evidence submitted
to or discovered by the Air Force that unidentified
sightings represent technological developments or
principles beyond the range of our present day
seientific knowledge. There has been nothing in the
way of evidence or other data to indicate that these
unidentified sightings were extraterrestrial vehicles

under intelligent control.

Sincerely,

MASTON M. JACKS

Major, USAF

Public Information Division
Office of Information

Chicago, Illinois 60613