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Chicago, Illinois, October 1962

Date of account
1962-10
Location
Chicago, Illinois
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 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 1.DATE 口 Wos Balloon 口 Probably Bolloon 10 0ctober 1962 Chicagolllinois 口 Possibly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aircraft XkGround.Visual Ground-Radar Local. 口 Probably Aireraf! 口 11/0300z AirVisuol Air-Intercept Radar GMT 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical 5.PHOTOS 口 Probably Astronomicol OYes 口 Possibly Astronomicol 风。 Civilian OthorSatellite(EcHO I) 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS9. COURSE 1. 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERYATION 口 Insufficiont Dota for Evaluation 口 Unknown one East 15 minutes 11.COMMENTS 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Witness considered obj as Illuminated obj with appearance of possible Satellite. ECHO I star in flight fm West to East observd data not available for Cbicago with low power Binoculars. Witness at this time; however, ECHO wanted to know if obj was ECHO. was over Toronto Canada 9 mins after the rptd sighting movin

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