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UFO Report — Raytown, Missouri, 17 July 1965

📅 17 July 65 📍 Raytown, Missouri 🏛 Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 📄 sighting_report
UFOUAPRaytownMissouriEcho IAltair1965

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A civilian in Raytown, Missouri, reported a star-like object performing erratic maneuvers on July 17, 1965. The Foreign Technology Division concluded the sighting was likely the satellite Echo I and the star Altair.

This document is a formal UFO sighting report filed by the 328th Fighter Wing at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri, regarding an incident that occurred on July 17, 1965. A civilian witness reported observing a white, star-like object in the western sky. According to the report, the object moved from the west, passed overhead, headed east, stopped, changed course to the southeast, and then moved straight up before stopping again. The witness observed the object with the naked eye and through binoculars. The report includes detailed meteorological data for the time of the sighting, noting clear skies and high scattered clouds. The official conclusion provided by the evaluating agency, the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, suggests that the witness likely observed two distinct objects: the satellite Echo I and the star Altair. Despite this conclusion, the investigating officer, Captain E. L. Wiegel, noted that with the information available at the wing level, no definitive analysis could be made regarding the cause of the sighting.

With the information available at this level, no analysis can be made of the possible cause of the sighting.

Official Assessment

Astronomical (STAR ALTAIR). Regarded as two objects, the first, Satellite. The second, Star. 2101 PM. ECHO I was in flight to SE and is probably the cause of the first object. ALTAIR is the brightest Astro Body in the sky.

The sighting was attributed to the satellite Echo I and the star Altair.

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