UFO Sighting Report — Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 10 July 1964

This document is a teletype report regarding a UFO sighting on 10 July 1964, involving a pilot flying from Perryville, Missouri, to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The pilot observed the objects while passing over Jackson, Missouri, and reported them to the Memphis Center, which subsequently contacted the 30th Air Division. The witness, an FAA Flight Services operator, observed the objects using binoculars. The report describes three separate objects, though never more than two were seen at once. They were described as rectangle-long cones, intense white in color (with orange or red hues), and appeared slightly larger than a pinhead. The objects were observed for two hours under night conditions with thin scattered cirrus clouds. The 798th Radar Squadron (Z-70) confirmed radar contact at 0927Z, bearing 152 degrees at 85 miles, at altitudes of 33,200 feet and 8,900 feet. The report concludes that there were no aircraft in the area that could have caused the observation, and no identification was made by the preparing officer, 1st Lt. Charles R. Piver. A subsequent memorandum dated 4 November 1964, from Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., Chief of the Aerial Phenomena Branch, requests weather data to determine if an atmospheric inversion existed in the Cape Girardeau to Belleville, Illinois area on the night of 9 July or the morning of 10 July 1964.