U.S. Air Force Technical Information Sheet — Kansas City, Missouri, 21 May 1953

This document contains a U.S. Air Force Technical Information Sheet regarding a sighting reported on May 21, 1953, in Kansas City, Missouri. The witness, a 32-year-old Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force who was employed in guided missile work at Holloman Air Force Base, reported observing three transparent, egg-shaped objects for approximately ten minutes. The witness described the objects as resembling balloons but noted that his experience with weather balloons led him to rule them out due to the objects' peculiar maneuvers. He estimated the objects were at an altitude of 30,000 feet and traveling at 1,700 miles per hour in a south-southwest direction. The weather was reported as dry and clear with no wind. The official conclusion recorded on the report is 'AIRCRAFT', though an investigator's note on the summary page remarks that the witness's answers were 'too contradictory.' The file also includes a newspaper clipping from the 'Dayton Journal Herald' dated June 25, 1953, which discusses a separate, unrelated report of two miners in Brush Creek, California, who claimed to have seen a 'midget-manned' flying saucer that left 'elephant-like' tracks. The ATIC comment on this clipping notes that the 19th O.S.I. District at Travis AFB was asked to investigate the California sighting, which was suspected to be a hoax, but was deemed necessary to look into for Blue Book records.