Correspondence Regarding UFO Sighting — San Jose, California, 1964

This document collection contains correspondence and reports related to various UFO sightings in the United States during 1964. The primary document is a letter from the U.S. Air Force, specifically the Office of Information, dated May 9, 1967, addressed to a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The letter acknowledges receipt of a report regarding a sighting that occurred in August 1964. The Air Force official, Lt. Colonel George P. Freeman, Jr., states that a positive identification of the object could not be made, primarily because of the significant time delay between the event and the report. The file also includes personal accounts from witnesses, including a 17-year-old student from San Jose, California, who describes observing a bright, silver object in the sky in August 1964. The witness notes that the object traveled on a course for approximately five minutes before vanishing without making any noise. Other materials in the file include press clippings from various newspapers, such as the 'Lansing State Journal' and the 'Tobacco Valley News,' detailing sightings in Quebec, San Angelo, Texas, and Eureka, Montana. These reports describe a variety of phenomena, including bright lights, round objects with domes, and formations of objects. The collection also contains a 'UFO Form' completed by a witness who reported a sighting in Parma, Ohio, in August 1964, describing a round object with white and red lights that hovered and then moved at a high rate of speed. The overall tone of the correspondence reflects the Air Force's standard procedure of acknowledging reports while noting the difficulty of investigating sightings that are reported long after they occur.