E-006311LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Offutt AFB Elongated Object and Satellite-Object Report
September 8, 1958Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, United States
Major Paul A. Duich reported an initially bright stationary feature that became a dull red-orange elongated object. A group of officers, airmen and civilians then reportedly saw small dark objects maneuvering near its lower end before the main object changed attitude and moved west-southwest.
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“Duich reported that an initially bright stationary feature became a dull red-orange elongated object; small dark specks then appeared and maneuvered near its lower end before the main object tilted and moved west-southwest.”
SRC-002107 · Offutt parent/satellite report; uploaded PDF pp. 29-29
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“Section III gives Duich's extended account: the object first resembled a stationary short vapor trail, became a brilliant light, then a dull red-orange slender-cigar shape; small dark specks appeared near its lower end before the main object changed attitude and moved west-southwest.”
“Duich said a colonel took 35 mm color photographs but later denied obtaining successful exposures, and that Duich reported the event to a filter center but was never interviewed by ATIC despite being told he would be contacted.”
“The main Offutt object was described as a pencil or slender cigar with a blunter upper end; the smaller objects were seen only as dark specks and are not separately classified as craft.”
“The Abstract says NICAP selected 740 reports after considering more than 5,000 signed reports and many hundreds of reports from newspapers and other publications, emphasizing observer qualifications and multiple-observer cases.”
“NICAP explicitly distinguishes its physical-UFO investigation from contactee, religious, philosophical, and spiritual claims and says its investigations found no evidence supporting claimed rides in flying saucers, while alleging considerable fraud in that area.”