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Newport News & Carrolton, Virginia, August 1961

Date of account
1961-08
Location
Newport News & Carrolton, Virginia
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloan 9(Aug 61 Newpors News & Carrolton, Virginia 口 Probably Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION DGround-Visuol Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local_2030 口 Probably Aircraft GMT 10/00307 AirVisual Air-Intercopt Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomicol DY, 口 Probably Astronomical XONo Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown 12-15min 1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING White Objt ObSerVed at 11. coMMENTs Light with randon movement in dusk. Looked like star except for movement. view for 15 min.Deseribed as slowly fadng Observed xtk first in E and disappeared to E. Movement conforns to upper air currents. After random movement. Same objt viewed on Balloon info not received fm local weath other cccasi

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