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Union, Maine, February 1961

Date of account
1961-02
Location
Union, Maine
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 16Feb 61 Union, Maine Probably Bolloon 口 Possibly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local-1735 X Ground-Vi sual DGround-Rodar 口 Was Aireraft Probably Aircroft GMT 162235Z AirVisuol D Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical MeTEo aYes Probably Astronomical No Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficient Dete fer Evaluation 口 Unknown E-W 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Ball Of flame With no 11. coMMENTs One witness reported seeing smoke or trail. Observer compared brillance objt. However,there were apparently of objt to burning magmesium. Objt was observelseveral witnesses in several parts of momentarily before going out of sight behind Maine, according to newspaper reports. barn and observer could hot ext

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