Ottawa, Illinois, August 1965
- Date of account
- 1965-08
- Location
- Ottawa, Illinois
- 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 text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073 RECORD 1.DATE.TIME GROUP 2.LOCATION 17 August 65 18/0328Z Ottawa, Illinois 3.OURCE 10.CONCLUSION Civilian Astro(IETEOR） 1.NUMBEROFOBJECTS Horizontal flight does not rule out meteor ob servation.Object has One all characteristics of a meteor sighting. 5.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11.BRIEFSUMMARYANDANALYSIS 15 Seconds Object at 10--15 deg elevation in horizontal flight maralell to the Farth.Flight from ENE to wSw.Disappeared beyond trees. TYPEOFOBSERVATION Brighter than the North Star.Total duration l5 seconds. Ground-Visual Covered the wiath:ofa thumb at amns length in1 seccnd.Lodked lilea bigmeteor excejt that ithad horizontal flight instead 7.COURSE of descending. WSW 8.FHOTOS Yes XXNO 9.PHYSICALEVIDENCE iYes XXNo FORM FTD SEP630-329(TDE) Prevloussditlonsofthinform meybsused.
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