Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ...

Statistics
for 1965
1
Astronomical
Aircraft
Balloon
Insufficient
dataOther
Satellite
Unidentified
Pending
Total
ASTRONOMICAL
CASES
Meteors
Stars
and
planets
Other
Total
OTHER CATEGORY
Hoaxes,
hallucinations, unreliable
re-
ports,
and
psychological
causes
Missiles
and
rockets
ReflectionsFlares
and
fireworks
Mirages
and
inversions
Search
and
ground
lights
Clouds
and
contrails
Chaff
Birds
Physical
specimens
Radar
analysis
Photo
analysis
Satellite
decay
Miscellaneous
Total
January Febru-
ary
March
April
May
June
July
August Septem-
bar
October
Novem-
bar
Decem-
bar
Total
10
8
11
4 2
10 27
82 30 27 22
12 246
11
8
14
11
14
7
32
61 20 12 14
5
210
3
2
1
3
0
3 7 6 2 7
0
2
33
5 4 2 4 4 2
16
24
15
5
3
1
66
11
8
7
8
5 6
9
42
7 9
11
3
122
4 5 5 5
15
5
42
41
24
3 0
3
152
1
0
2
1 1
0
2 4 4
0
1
0
16
0 0
1
0
0 0 0 2
2
6
4 2
17
45 35
43
36
41
33
135
262 104
70 55 28 667
6 6
8
2 2
4
14
26 13
6
9
5
101
3
1
3
2
0
5
10
55
16
20
13
7
135
21
3
1
0 0
0
4
1
23 61
1
2
1
0
0 9
10
8
11
4
2
10 27
82 30
27 22
12 245
5
3
4
1
2
1
2
12
1
3
0
0
34
1
3
1 1
3
1
10
1 1
2
1
1
1
7
1
1
1 1
4
2
3
5
2
1
0
1
0 0
1
3 0 0
2
0 9
1
1
.
1
3
1 1
1
2 2
3
1 1 1
11
81
9
1 101
3
111
121
12 13
14
3
121
6
12
16
2
III
171
17
18
2
178
171
12
0
1
1
1
0
1
0
2
0
1
0
1
8
19
20
2
20
21
2
221
20
23
4
221
24 25
26
3
13
11
8
7
8
5
6 9
42
7
9
11
3
126
I
Compiled
Jan.
18, 1966.
2
Solar
image.
3
Moon.
4
Sun.
3
Reflected
moonlight,
parbelia,
moon.
Reflected
moonlight.
7
Comet
Ibeya-Seki.
Metal
ball.
9
Plastic
bags.
10
Gourd.
II
Anomalous
propagation.
12
Electronic
countermeasures.
13
False
targets.
14
weather
returns.
Is
Developer
smear.
18
Free
falling
object.
17
Poor
photo
process.
18
No
image
on
film.
19
Tracer
bullets.
29
Misinterpretation
of
conventional
ob-
jects
(3).
21
Kites.
22
Debris
in
wind.
23
Man
on
ground.
24
Lighting.
25
Chemical
trails
from
research
rocket.
2
1
3
Missile
launch.