1959 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P22)
A manned balloon mishap occurred in 1959, injuring two Air Force pilots. This incident was also conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 22 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1959 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
A manned balloon mishap occurred in 1959, injuring two Air Force pilots. This incident was also conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.
Witnesses on file: Air Force pilots.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.