Project 10073 Record Card and Investigation Report — Cleveland, Ohio Area

This document is a field report from the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, dated July 12, 1956. It details the investigation of several UFO sightings in the Cleveland, Ohio area, conducted by M/Sgt Oliver D. Hill between June 27 and June 29, 1956. The investigation was prompted by reports submitted to ATIC by the UFO Research Council (UFORC) of Cleveland. The report covers four specific cases, including the 'Sheneman Case' (referred to as Case 2 in the report), which involved a sighting in late July or early August 1955 near Mulberry Corners, Ohio. The witness, a local radio and television store owner, reported seeing a large, round object with a dome, red and green lights, and no visible motors, hovering 50 to 100 feet above the ground. The witness described the object as being 80 to 100 feet in diameter. The investigator interviewed the witness and his wife, noting that their accounts were consistent with previous reports but that the UFORC had embellished the case with inaccurate drawings and photographs of the wrong location. The report also discusses other cases, including the 'Ankenbrandt' case, which the investigator dismissed as the product of an eccentric individual with a vivid imagination. The investigator expressed skepticism regarding the UFORC, suggesting that its members were leading people to believe they were official USAF investigators and that their reports often bordered on fantasy. The report concludes that the Sheneman case, specifically, lacked sufficient data for a firm conclusion and was categorized as an 'unknown.' The investigator strongly recommended that all future UFO sightings be reported directly to the Air Force rather than to private organizations like the UFORC, as the Air Force possessed trained investigators capable of handling such reports. The document includes sketches of the object and the sighting location, as well as correspondence regarding the UFORC's interactions with the Air Force.