Military Police Sighting Report — Ft. Knox, Kentucky, 23 January 1965

This document contains a series of reports and correspondence regarding a UFO sighting at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on January 23, 1965. The primary incident involved a military police patrol, including SP/4 John F. Davis, PFC Paul S. Sweat, and Pvt Robert T. Warstler, who observed an unidentified object while on duty near the intersection of Sanitation Fill Road and Brandenburg Road. The witnesses described the object as approximately 50 feet in diameter, emitting a yellowish-white glow similar to a firefly. The object was first sighted at tree-top level, then ascended in a spiral pattern to an altitude of approximately 300 feet, where it circled for 22 minutes before disappearing. The witnesses noted that the object appeared to have an aluminum surface and emitted a high-frequency electrical whine. The incident was reported to the Provost Marshal Operations Officer, Major J. S. Oliver, who confirmed the sighting. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency was that the object was a balloon. The document also includes various other reports of UFO sightings from January 1965, including incidents in Virginia, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, as well as correspondence from civilians inquiring about UFO information, which the Air Force consistently addressed by stating that reports were evaluated and that many were identified as conventional phenomena.