UFO Sighting Report — Bloomingburg, New York, 25 July 1965

On July 25, 1965, at approximately 6:55 p.m., two young girls, Judith Shaver (13) and Nancy Morrow (11), observed an unidentified flying object while swimming at the Sunshine House pool in Bloomingburg, New York. The witnesses described the object as a round, silver, baseball-sized object at arm's length that appeared to be reflecting sunlight. The object reportedly zig-zagged in a decline toward the earth, stopped its spiraling motion, and then ascended vertically at high speed into space. The sighting lasted for a few minutes. The incident was reported to Fred Goll, the owner of the Sunshine House, who corroborated the girls' story. An anonymous woman driving along Main Street also reportedly witnessed the object, describing it as 'shiny, and looked like a kite or disk.' The incident was subsequently investigated by a local 'Tri-County Filter Center' and reported to Stewart Air Force Base. Local aviation authorities, including a spokesman at Wurtsboro Airport, suggested the object could have been a sun reflection from an airplane taking off, noting that the airport's flight path was two miles from the location. The Air Force officially categorized the event as an aircraft observation. The documentation includes correspondence between Stewart Air Force Base and the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, as well as a recording tape of the incident, which was turned over to the Air Force.