Richmond, Virginia, August 1961
- Date of account
- 1961-08
- Location
- Richmond, Virginia
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source page 1
Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Wos Balloon 31Aug61 Richmond,Virginia 口 Probably Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possibly Balloon Local 2000EDT bXGroundVisual Ground-Rodar Was Aircraft Probobly Aircra 312400Z GMT. DAi~Viwal D Air-lntorcept Radar 口 Possibly Aireraf 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical 口Y... 口 Probably Astronomicol Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Insufficiont Dota for Evaluation 1-2 口 Unknown 30 sec N 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTINGObjt W/lightS running 11. coMMENTs2 separate sighting.1 fm down side observed in N. Believed to be Richmond with plane to N.l fm Ashland tanker or comrerical airliner with lights. Virginia with plane to S. Ashland sighting prompted report fm Richmond. Richmond report fm writer working for newspaper who covers aviation. States objt was x definiately
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