PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9669582

DATE OF SIGHTINGOctober 1947

REPORTED LOCATIONDayton Ohio

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motion und thut the bricht sunlicht cai-ht have made both thea oujucts

And the trails nearly invisible.

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Should Leo resorted to only if all other possivle exylanations fail.

rt, while it is not out of the realm of possibility that the ob-

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acts se6nm were an unusnal dou_le fire>all, it is ;ost unlikely.

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Dy HYNEK'S EVALUATIONS EXTRACTED FROM PROJECT GRUDGE REPO!

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INCILENT INDEA

le. Astronomioal

@ Eich probability:
#26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49, 59, 60, 66, 69, 70, 94,
Jo, 96, 97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 116, 119, 132, 136, 140
147, 148, 158, 174, 134, 185, 187, 197, 203, 204, 208, 216,
212, 238.

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199, 202, 205, 220, 230, 240.

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126, 131, 138, 141, 145, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 163,
169, 17 - 173, 178, } > ,. 1 192 ; 138, ae ), 194 _ 19 D> 96, 193,
200, 201, 209, 21, 217, 222, 235, 237, 239.

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, flares or falling bodies:
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108, 109, 133, 170, 211, 218.
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125, 127, 137, 139, 149, 150, 177, 179, 191, 206, 212, 213.
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