Documents / Document
This is a two-section unclassified Air Force message sent on 5 August 1965 by the 2854th Air Base Group at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, to Wright-Patterson AFB, USAF and other recipients under AFR 200-2. It reports four bluish-white objects that a control tower supervisor watched through binoculars for about 1.5 hours on 2 August 1965. The 746th squadron made radar contact with one object near Norman. The message notes many sightings across the Oklahoma City area and gives weather balloons and/or known aircraft as the preliminary cause.
“weather balloon”3 pages
AP IN: 50143 (5 Aug 65) SOUTH OF TINKER AFB. J. LOCATION, APPROXIMATE ALTITUDE, AND GENERAL DIRECTION OF FLIGHT OF ANY AIR TRAFFIC OR BALLOON RELEASED: US WEATHER STATION, WILL ROGERS FIELD, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. RELEASED A BT NOTE: SECTION: II IS APIN: 50158 (5 Aug 65). N
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.