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22 May 1964
The report: The Fort Wayne newspaper glance of 1986 preserves one airport case in a single line: "May 22, 1964: The tower at Baer Field received numerous calls about 'four orange-yellow objects' that 'flashed rhythmically with intense flashes.'" No official file, disposition or fuller newspaper account of the night was reached, and the case is entered at the weight of that one line: on that date the tower at Fort Wayne's airport fielded numerous calls about four orange-yellow objects flashing rhythmically. Baer Field — the city's airport and the Air National Guard's Fort Wayne base — recurs in this record as the place reports were telephoned to and checked with, in 1964, in the Blue Book file's routine note of 1966, and again in September 1973, when its authorities both received a report and saw the object themselves (see the 1973 entry). No intercept or scramble by the Guard is documented in any source reached; where the record shows the base's part, it is the part of a reporting and checking station, and this section states that limit rather than filling it in.
Sources:
- "Close Encounters: A Glance at What's Been Spotted in the Sky Around Fort Wayne," reprinted in UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 198 (January 1986) — the 22 May 1964 entry.
- Project Blue Book case file, Fort Wayne, 8 September 1966 — the staff message's note on the Indiana Air National Guard unit at Baer Field and routine aircraft sightings in the area.