Project Blue Book USAF Blue Book case #6507 Central Indiana UFO/UAP: Sighting (September 13, 1959) and Orb Sightings (Oct 8-13:1959):
Bunker Hill Air Force/Grissom Air Force (AF) Bases (SAC: Strategic Air Command
This is just a follow-up thoughts that were activated while writing my previous post
My personal UFO sighting and disclosure.
Project Blue Book USAF Blue Book case #6507 Central Indiana UFO/UAP (September 13, 1959) and Orb Sightings (Oct 8-13:1959): Bunker Hill Air Force/Grissom Air Force (AF) Bases (SAC: Strategic Air Command - Wikipedia)
I have been somewhat obsessed with the UFO lore of Bunker Hill AF base since I was a child and before, the base took up a lot of the ecosystem of Kokomo Ind where I grew up, almost like a college town atmosphere. It would have consumed Kokomo more if it had not been for all the factory jobs available. I came across one particular incident of a metallic orb which sounds very similar to what I saw (see rendering) that “witching hour” when I was a teenager.
The people that lived on the base were soldiers and their families and since they were out of town folk the local Hoosiers seemed to view them with “one eye open” growing up. I was in awe of them knowing that they flew those jets and made a boom, first time scared the shit out of one and all lol! I can remember the large aircraft/jets that flew over while playing in the field behind the Center’s softball field and playground. They were different; they were the base people and we were the locals. Frequent fights occurred at the local community center’s dances between the flyboys and locals (yes Top Gun” hit it on the head). One news clip talks about the base soldiers’ cars being set on fire during the party and running them out of town. Yes Kokomo didn’t play and Kokomo history shows a checkered past of running a lot of folks out of town or at least that what Mama told me).
Looking back, they probably retaliated with sonic boom fly overs daily for spell. I remember the mayor writing to the base commander about the numerous booms but they still happen. He also wrote and complained about the basemen coming into town causing problems although the locals set the car on fire. My bother was a caddie for officers which just shows you how big the base was. I only ventured on the base once to pickup my brother, probably was sitting 10 yards from some nuke, like most that visited the base.
At an early age we grew up being told this was not just any base, but the “Strategic Air Command (SAG) base, it was different. I knew well before high school there were nukes on base, all the grownups knew it without saying it and us kids would never mention it “ever”, not sure why, just didn’t. When I had my UFO (using this term since this is what it was called in Project Blue Book document) sighting, not UAP, I think there is a big difference but that’s just me. UFOs sounded more serious and mysterious, I guess, back then compared to now. So the thought did enter my mind in much later years whether Bunker Hill AF base had any role in my childhood bedside UFO sighting that night. Maybe it was an experimental plane, maybe it was attracted to the nukes at the base? Other UFO/UAP research seem to think there is more than a casual correlation. I always thought we didn’t know what the hell to do with Nukes and everything connected with them(Just look at Iran). Just maybe someone is watching over us waiting for the right time to intervene before we misalign the cosmos somehow (Hello AI - “Come on Down”)
A. DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECT(S):
(1) CIRCULAR SHAPE.
(2) ESTIMATED TO BE BETWEEN THE SIZE OF A PEA AND A DIME HELD AT ARMS LENGTH.
(3) BRIGHT LIGHT OF WHITE COLOR.
(4) THRU (9) NOT APPLICABLE.
B. DESCRIPTION OF COURSE OF OBJECT(S):
(1) PHONE CALL FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED CIVILIAN OBSERVER IN KOKOMO,
USAF Blue Book case #6507 — Bunker Hill AFB , Indiana (September 13, 1959) This incident I think is the case that best highligts how evidence in your face is disregarded, and the question is was it deliberate or were they trying to save face and came up with the best excuse. Additional records point out huge difference in altitude of the org (oblong shaped) between ground and air testimonies, eye witness accounts. Even the shape and size of the initial sighting which was almost describes a plasma like UFO. The citizen’s name who reported was not given, but several of the military staff involved were shown throughout the document findings. The were not sure what they saw and the word “probably” is used numerous times. This was not a star named Venus, were the trying to code word something by saying it was Venus, this does not compute.
Kokomo appears to be mentioned because the first civilian report appears to have come from an unidentified civilian observer in Kokomo, Indiana, and then the sighting was later observed from multiple points at Bunker Hill AFB.
So Kokomo may not have been mentioned because it was the “main event location,” but because it was likely the origin point of the initial report chain.
The sequence looks something like this:
Civilian observer in Kokomo reports something
That makes Kokomo the first named civilian location.
The handwritten page you showed suggests the information moved through Indiana State Police / Red Key / Dayton / Wright-Patterson communication channels.
That may explain why the Air Force file cared about the chain of custody: who called whom, and whether there was a TWX/message.
Base personnel used binoculars.
That makes sense because Wright-Patterson’s Air Technical Intelligence Center handled UFO reporting and evaluation.
The handwritten page you showed suggests the information moved through Indiana State Police / Red Key / Dayton / Wright-Patterson communication channels.
That may explain why the Air Force file cared about the chain of custody: who called whom, and whether there was a TWX/message.
Base personnel used binoculars.
That makes sense because Wright-Patterson’s Air Technical Intelligence Center handled UFO reporting and evaluation.
Base personnel used binoculars.
ATIC/Wright-Patterson gets involved
That makes sense because Wright-Patterson’s Air Technical Intelligence Center handled UFO reporting and evaluation.
The case began with a telephone call from an unidentified civilian in Kokomo, Indiana. After receiving the report, personnel at Bunker Hill AFB (later renamed Grissom AFB) began looking toward the reported location and observed a bright white object.
The object was then observed by:
Control Tower personnel
GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) operators
Weather Squadron observers
Communications personnel
Base Operations personnel
Pilots in interceptor aircraft
At least nine named military witnesses were documented.
Kokomo was close enough to Bunker Hill/Grissom to be operationally relevant. If a civilian in Kokomo reported an unusual object in the sky near dawn, and Bunker Hill AFB personnel could also see something on a similar bearing, then Kokomo becomes part of the official sighting geometry.
At an early age we grew up being told this was not just any base, but the “Strategic Air Command (SAG) base, it was different. I knew well before high school there were nukes on base, all the grownups knew it without saying it and us kids would never mention it “ever”, not sure why, just didn’t. When I had my UFO (using this term since this is what it was called in Project Blue Book document) sighting, not UAP, I think there is a big difference but that’s just me. UFOs sounded more serious and mysterious, I guess, back then compared to now. So the thought did enter my mind in much later years whether Bunker Hill AF base had any role in my childhood bedside UFO sighting that night. Maybe it was an experimental plane, maybe it was attracted to the nukes at the base? Other UFO/UAP research seem to think there is more than a casual correlation.
I always thought we didn’t know what the hell to do with Nukes and everything connected with them(Just look at Iran). Just maybe someone is watching over us waiting for the right time to intervene before we misalign the cosmos somehow (Hello AI - “Come on Down”)

AI assistance with writing and research
Agency: USAF Project Blue Book
Type: Case File
Released: 1969-12-17
Incident: September 13, 1959
Location: Bunker Hill AFB , Indiana
AF IN : 10889 (10 Oct 59)
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(1) 1000’ BASED WITH TOP AT 2500’
(2) 1400’ BASED WITH TOP AT 8000’
I. TWO F-102 AIRCRAFT FROM LOCKBOURNE AFB, OHIO AND ONE F-89 FROM BHAFB WERE LAUNCHED. ONE F-102 AND ONE F-89 OBSERVED THE OBJECT FROM 40,000 FEET AND REPORTED THAT THEY BELIEVED IT TO BE A STAR.
J. N/A
K. INVESTIGATING OFFICER: OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, 305TH BOMBARDMENT WING (M) (SAC), LT HARRY A. KERSEY JR. BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTED IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE UFO WAS PROBABLY A STAR OR THE PLANET VENUS. THE OBSERVERS WHO SIGHTED THE LIGHT SOURCE ARE ALL IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT IT LOOKED LIKE A STAR. EXPERIENCED WEATHER MEN WHO WERE OBSERVERS ARE SURE THAT IT WAS A STAR WHICH THEY SIGHTED BEFORE ONLY MAGNIFIED BY AN ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION. THE PILOTS WHO OBSERVED THE OBJECT FROM 40,000 FEET CONCURRED THAT THEY BELIEVED IT TO BE A STAR. COMPUTATIONS SHOW THAT VENUS WAS ON A BEARING OF 102 DEGREES AT AN ANGLE OF 23 DEGREES AND 20 MINUTES AT 08/1040Z WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY THE SAME LOCATION AS THAT FOUND IN PARAGRAPH B2 ON WHICH THE OBSERVERS AGREE. THE BASE ISD DID NOT RECEIVE ANY CALLS ON THIS SIGHTING.
BT
09/2229Z OCT RUEDNJ
NOTE : SEC II IS AF IN 10851 (10 Oct 59)
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Notes based on this section of research:
65 references to Kokomo In
Connecting this to a Dayton sighting in Oct, 1959, there were 2 reports in (1)Bunker Hill and (2) Dayton
Eventually said it was Venus but was a moving oblong object
Bunker Hill sent 2 jets to intercept
Kokomo is mentioned in over 75 times in files
Similar sightings in MD many mentioning orbs
Instead of saying I don’t know they make up something (show AI responses- as 3rd person talking to me- do interview style
Newspaper.com show UFO sightings in Kokomo from 1950-1955
Drawing feed into ChatGPT