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Danbury, Conn., October 1961

Date of account
1961-10
Location
Danbury, Conn.
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS- Oct1961 口 Wos Balloon Danbury,Conn. 口 ProboblyBalloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possibiy Bolloon Local 1900 Ground-Visuol DGround-Radar 口 Was Aircraft 2400 口 Probably Aircraft GMT. DAirVisual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Yes Was Astronomicol Civilian 口 Probably Astronomicol arNo 口 PossiblyAstronomicol 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION bali lightning Probably 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 的 Other. 10min. 口 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation 1 口 Unknowm 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Object described as round,pinkish-orange Phenomenon responsible for this in color,glowing; observed by a boy and his father near Danbury,Conn.Object According to a paper on ball lightning estimated to be5-8'in diameter and was Swedish scientist, observed at a distance of approx 20'.Object dated 12 Sept 5l,this ph

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