UFO Sighting Reports and Analysis — Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 1965

This document contains a series of reports and correspondence regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in August 1965. The primary incident involves two 14-year-old schoolgirls who reported observing an object in the sky on August 3 and August 7, 1965. The witnesses described the object as a round, egg-shaped, light-emitting body that changed colors from red to green to white, and claimed it possessed oblong windows. One witness also provided a photograph taken on August 7, 1965, which allegedly showed the object, though the object was not visible to the naked eye when the photo was taken. The Air Force investigation, led by Captain D.D. Dehoff of the 4600th Air Base Wing, concluded that the sightings were likely the star Arcturus. The report explicitly states that the sighting was not substantiated by radar data from NORAD, SPADATS, or the FAA. The investigating officer dismissed the witnesses' claims of seeing windows and specific, non-stellar movements as the result of 'overactive imagination' fueled by recent media coverage of UFOs. The document includes official teletype messages, a record of the sighting, and a copy of a letter sent to Dr. J. Allen Hynek regarding the incident.