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Decatur, Illinois, October 1968

Date of account
1968-10
Location
Decatur, Illinois
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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POJECT 10073 RECORD 1.DATE·TIME GROUP 20or210ct68 233oz Decatir,nlinois 3.SOURCE 10.CONCLUSION Civilian Other(CONFLICTING DATA) 4.NUM8ER OFOBJECTS Cue S.LENGTHOFOBSERVATION 11.BRIEFSUMMARYANDANALYSIS 95 Miautes The obsarver sighted a white light that was similar to a star. 6.TYPEOFOBSERVATION however after lcoking at it through a teloscope,ha desided that it wasn't. Cround-yisual 7.COURSE COMENTS: In obsarvars original letter,he gate tha dato of the sightio3 as 20 0ct 68.In hi9 completed 117 he gave tho dato SSW tO WS as 2l Cct 68.At 6:30PM local Arcturuswas at about 23 c3g 8.PHOTOS olevation in the west and at 8:05FM local,Arcturus was on tho borizon at 302 dog aziauth.It seens quito likely that the Yes observer was looking at Arcturus, howevar because of the XXNo conflict in dates tha sighting ia baing sarriad aa Conflioting 9.PHYSICAL EVIDENCE Data. Yos XNo FORM FTD SEP630-329(TDE) Pr

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