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Middletown, Ohio, September 1961

Date of account
1961-09
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 18Sep 61 Middletown,Ohio 口 Was Balloon 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERYATION Local 0255 GroundVisual Ground-Rador 口 Wos Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft 1807552 D AirVisual D Air-lntercept Radqr 口 GMT 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical >i DY.. Probably Astronomical XNo Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor- 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation Sw rising 口 Unknown 1/2hr 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING awei 11.COMMENTSOO observed was apparontlymo a2. ing very slovly at a steady rate. This,p us on, 1s characteristie of astar and sreen. course orspeed. or planet. It was dotermined that the Lst magnitude star Sirius, which has a magnitu ie of -l.6,was in position reported at time of sighting. From witnesses position star would appear to move tow

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