DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE7006424
DATE OF SIGHTINGFebruary 1951
REPORTED LOCATIONCalena Ill
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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

3 Feb 51. Galena > ill G Pesbebly Selleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP t«#*w "TE YVPE OF OBSERVATION. —— ———-|D Possibly Balloon
Local : XE Ground: Vi suol O Ground-Roder E Prckabie haverets
cut__tot Given a re 0 Air Visual D Air-intercept Radar QO Possibly Aircraft
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ti No Civilians O Possibly Astronomicol
}. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION. ‘| 8. NUMBER OF OQJECTS | 9%. COURSE 5 die
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [11. COMMENTS
Shape like a "telephone Pole". Color was | Probably large meteor, Report says it
brilliant red. Size 300' long. Speed was fas viewed over Wisconsic where it
not very fast. Alt not very high. 3 appeared to be blue,
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JOURNAL HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5,

} New “Saucer”

Reports Rise

‘Telephone Pole” Flies

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Over City. People Say

GALENA, Ill, Feb. 4.—(UP)-—;
Mayor Ray Logan said today he’
was flooded with calls from pér-,
| ‘sums who claimed they saw a 300-,

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«4 foot long, brilliant red “telephone |
pole” fly ever Galena last night.

And it was only a “typical Sat-;

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urday nig¢ht in Galena,” the mayor.
said, meaning that the revelry)
wasn't so great that people were,
siseeing things.

The repert in this northern Ili- |
nois lown near the Wisconsin bor. |
€' der coincided with observations of ,
a brilliant blue flash, believed,

jcaused by a meteor, over central
Wisconsiny ?

Witnesjewhege said the pole was |
)Shaped pomething’like a ao
bat and glided noiselessly along, |
sjnot very high aud not Léry fast. :

"} Logan sald “very Feputable and |
responsible” person’ first called |
’ him about the object, and that ||’

since he has received numerous
| veports from others here and in}
communities to the north.”

“The descriptions given me were |
pretty much the same,” Logan}
isaid. “I'm still getting calls.”

The police department said‘ that :
a half dozen motorists reported |
thal they nearly had accidents,
,| When they saw the pole pass over- |
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} Witnesses said the pole first ap-
|peared over a section known as
‘\Trish Hollow and was brilliant red:
Ey iy color.

Virginia Readle, the local tele-
phone operator, said she saw the
poy while on her way to wo: lal

ind it nearly scared her to death. .

Later reports said the pole was |
green in color as it sailed north-,'
j ward, and Logan said he received
reports from the north that it was,
|bhie over Wisconsin, —

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