Declassified UFO / UAP Document

UAP Sighting Report — Coldwater, Ohio, 20 September 1964

📅 20 September 1964 📍 Coldwater, Ohio 🏛 Aerial Phenomena Branch, NIDIC 📄 Sighting report and correspondence

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TL;DR

A 1964 U.S. Air Force sighting report from Coldwater, Ohio, describes two vertically spaced white lights moving west. The Foreign Technology Division requested Dr. J. Allen Hynek to evaluate the case, which was officially classified as 'AIRCRAFT'.

This document contains a U.S. Air Force sighting report regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed in Coldwater, Ohio, on September 20, 1964. The witness, a former U.S. Air Force service member, reported observing two white, vertically spaced lights moving westward at dusk for a duration of approximately 20 seconds. The witness noted that no physical object was visible, only the lights, which appeared similar to landing lights and changed in brightness before disappearing at the western horizon. The report includes a formal questionnaire completed by the witness and a cover letter from Captain David N. Moody of the Aerial Phenomena Branch at the Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In the letter, dated November 3, 1964, Captain Moody requests that Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern University evaluate this sighting along with another from Cedar Grove, Iowa, as part of the ongoing analysis of 1964 cases. The official conclusion recorded on the sighting form for the Coldwater incident is 'AIRCRAFT'.

Observation of two objects in flight to West at dusk. Appeared as two landing lights, no objects visible. Lights only. Changed brightness. Disappeared at Western horizon. White color. Lights were vertically spaced.

Official Assessment

AIRCRAFT

The observation of two vertically spaced white lights moving west at dusk was evaluated as aircraft.

Witnesses

Key Persons

  • J. Allen HynekConsultant at Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University

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