PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9670458

DATE OF SIGHTINGJune 1948

REPORTED LOCATIONScott AFB Ill

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‘Encidont 7131 -— Belleville, Illinois -- 20 Jyne 1948

it appears inprovable that this incident has an astrono=
misal explanation. If the evidence is correct as pivon, “he object
could mot have vesn a firsoalle. «ho gig zag oourse and tha relae
tively slow.speead co not Lit in with the dsesoription of a largs
meteor, Lack of tlare end train also tend to ruls out this hypo-

thesis.

ihe dosoription answors that of a lighted balloon rola-

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Dr HYNEK'S EVALUATIONS EXTRACTED FROM PROJECT GRUDGE REPORT.

le Astrononical

a. Eich probability:
726, 27, 30, 31, $2, 33, 34, 48, 49, 59, 60, 66, 69, 70, 94,
95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 116, 119, 132, 136, 140,
147, 148, 158, 174, 184, 185, 187, 197, 203, 204, 208, 216,
21°, 238.

b, fair or low probability:

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liz, 120, RGA, ~~ 9 130, 144, aWVWV» lou, 165, AUiy iTS, 1l¥c,
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99, aUL» 205, 220, io Ay e404
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fs 2. Wou-astronomical tut suggestive of other explanations

®-e Ballooas or ordinary sirorafts
#5, ll, 22, 41, 42, 55, S54, 75, 81, 835, 91, 92, lis, 114, 115,
126, 131, 136, 141, 145, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 165,
169, 171, 175, 178, 180, 182, 198, 190, 1¥4, 195, 196, 19d,

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200, 201, 209, 21U, 217, 222, 255, 257, 250.

b. Kookets, flaras or fallinz bodies:

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oa. 6 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 14, 15, 16, 25, 56, 65, 73, 106, 107,

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108, 109, 133, 170, 2ll, 218.

o. Misoellansous (reflections, auroral streanurs, birds, eto.):
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#39, 89, 125, 124, 128, 146, 164, 181, 189, eld, 221, 251, 2546

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