Cigar over St. Louis County, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was walking to church very early on the morning of May 5, 1965. Cutting across the rear of the adjacent school parking lot, a bright
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1965-05-02 → 1965-05-19
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