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Tacoma, Washington, April 1966

Date of account
1966-04
Location
Tacoma, Washington
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 1.DATE-TIME GROUP 2.LOCATION 4Apri16604/0645Z Tacoma, Washington (1Witness) 3.SOURCE 10.CONCLUSION Switcblmd.fon Civilian AIRCRAFT 4.NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11.BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 20 Minutes Object was rounded coming to a point at each end. Size of a silver dollar. Its color was bright orange.Object was at ar 6.TYPE OF OBSERVATION estimated 5,ooo ft.,traveling east to northeast.Object trayelc Ground-Visual in a straight line in an up anddowm manner.Object appeared twice in the twenty minute period.It seemed to be travelinga 7.COURSE circular oourse. The observcr saw it on the northeast leg eadh E toNE 8.PHOTOS probably aircraft.Sighting is consistent with an aircraft sighting and probably is of two separate aircraft, rather than OYes one although it is possible that one aircraft could have circ ed ODXNo the area but if that were'the case

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