United States · 19 August 1965
Cherry Creek, 1965
DocumentedA bull bent a steel restraining bar trying to get away from it, the milk yield dropped from two and a half cans to one, and the Air Force wrote that the sighting was not consistent with conventional visual phenomena.
- Where
- Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York
- When
- 19 August 1965
- Who reported it
- 4 civilians on a dairy farm; a New York State Trooper investigating
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-2
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- USAF Project Blue Book Project Blue Book case file, Cherry Creek, New York, August 1965 (14pp) (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
Purple residue at the site was analysed and identified as gentian violet plus 3-in-one oil and dismissed as unrelated. The principal witnesses were teenagers.
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