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Hilliard, Ohio, September 1961

Date of account
1961-09
Location
Hilliard, 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 14Sep 61 口 Was Balloon Hilliard, Ohio 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local 2005 IKGround-Visual Ground-Rodar Wos Aircraf! Probably Aircroft 口 GMT. 150705Z D AirVisuol D Air-intorcopt Radar 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE D Was AstronomicalMAkS O.Y.. Probably Astronomicol CkNo Civilian Possibly Astronomical e eetie 7.LENGTH.OP·OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE Other- Ros 4 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown 20 min 1 W-NW 1o.BRIEP sUMMARY oF SIGHTINGObjt brighter than Star. ll.coMmENTsIt is possible that objt of siglt Appeared to stand still at lst, suddenly speededing was planet Mars. Mars was just on or sa ra ered. Was a golden gleam then a big white ball.into view by atmospheric refraction. Planet Size of grapefruit at arms length. was not very bright at this time,having magnitud

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