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Poughkeepsie, New York, August 1962

Date of account
1962-08
Location
Poughkeepsie, New York
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2..LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Lkeepsie 口 Wos Balloon 25 August 1962 Poukoaoste. Now York 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibiy Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOFOBSERVATION Loca! Ground-Visual DGround-Rodar 口 Wos Aircraft Probably Aircroft 26/0140Z OAirVisuat Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT. 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomical star Yes 口 ProboblyAstronomicol Civilian Possibly Astronomical XXNo 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMSEROFO8JECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other- 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown one_hour one 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [11.COMMENTS Obj size of baseball, size of evening Small size & duration of sighting! star, color fire-red with tail of indicate astronomical body.Suddeh fire observed overhead.Moved fm 90 rising indicated by refraction dgrto tree-top level & then back to asbodysets.BothVega &Deneb 90 dgr.Moved fm side to side,disappeare

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