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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
“$. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE ~ . a ae mee Wos Astronomical Meteor
O Yes Q Probgbly Astronomical
ti No Civilians O Possibly Astronomicol
}. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION. ‘| 8. NUMBER OF OQJECTS | 9%. COURSE 5 die
| 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
Not Given 1 N sgh ori
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-;
|
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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