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Middletown, Ohio, August 1961

Date of account
1961-08
Location
Middletown, Ohio
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 6&22Aug61 Midiletown,Ohio 口 Was Balloon 口 Probably Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possibly Balloon .Local- 0030 XExGround-Visual DGround-Rodar 口 .Was Aireraft 口 Probobly Airerof! 0605302 GMT AirVisuol Air-lntercept Radar 口 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomieal CAtELLA 口 aYes ONX Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OP.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation Unknowm lhr 1 SE white, green, and blue. Brightness of 2nd mag star Capella (Auriga).Motion of objt, nitude star.About twice size of Jupiter viewe its appearance,duration fo sighting,ad through a telescope. In orbit around earth. its position all tend to substantiate cqnclu sion that objt was probably star Capelld Witness indicates that he calculated orbital period of objt to be 23 hrs,55 min and 42 sec.Length o

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