Sighting Incident Report — Pacific, 3 January 1965

This document contains two distinct reports regarding unidentified aerial phenomena. The primary report is an Air Force incoming message dated 3 January 1965, detailing a sighting at 03/1936Z at coordinates 55.45N 171.30W in the Pacific. The witness observed a small illuminated object at 330 degrees azimuth and 10 degrees elevation. The object traveled in an easterly direction for nine minutes before disappearing over the horizon. The official conclusion for this incident was that the object was the ECHO II satellite. The second report, included as a clipping, describes a sighting on 2 January 1965 in Rockdale, Illinois. Police Chief Joseph Snedic and Officer Edward Grossklaus observed a UFO hovering southeast of Rockdale near a waterway. They watched the object for 15 minutes and attempted to approach it in their patrol car, but it moved away. When they returned with binoculars, the object had departed. Officer Grossklaus, a former member of the Air Force, stated he had never seen an aircraft maneuver like the object, which performed circular movements at low speed at 1,000 feet. The witnesses also reported seeing a large bright light resembling an aircraft landing light, as well as two orange lights and one blue light.