Vandalia, Ohio, January 1962
- Date of account
- 1962-01
- Location
- Vandalia, Ohio
- 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 10073 RECORD CARD Mrs. 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 16 Jan 62 Vandalia,Ohio 口 Was Balloon 口 Probably Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Possibly Balloon 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0745 Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft K Probably Aircroft 16/1245Z GMT D AirVisual D Air-Intorcept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Ys 口 Probably Astronomical Civilian No 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUM8ER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation aprox 5min one descending 口 Unknown 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Witness opened curtains to a window and saw a This was probably condensation trail formed by a WPAFB jet making a penetra- descending in an arc. Trail was bright orange tion vhieh is illuuminated by the sum at at the top, changed as the object came.dowm to the top portion. The lower part of the pink. yell
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