PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
26 June 1954 Cim - Dayton Area - umbus,Oh1 D Was Balloon
Cy Probably Bolloon
TYPE OF OBSERYATION 0 Possibly Bolioon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4.
Local .Graund-Visual Ground-Rodar 0 Was Aicraft
0 Probably Aircraft
GMT. 26/05272, 10352, 11052 AirViswol Air-intercept Rodar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS oYn Rot San B. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
0 Probably Astronomicol
ONoA Co Civilian & Militery 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other
D0O Insuificient Data for Evaluation
W Unknown
Varled
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |11. COMMENTS
reports received. Probable balloon.
Round silvery object. Possibly same balloon observed from
danville, I1I preceeding night.
(Where are photols)
26 SEP 52)

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ZZV UFOB ZANEVILLE RADIO, ONIO REPORTS OBJECT NOW NORTH WEST BOUND ZZV UFOB ZANEVILLE RADIO, ONIO REPORTS OBJECT NOW NORTH WEST BOUND
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to Atic. Six (6) twx's received at 1004 26 June covering five
and one additional.
IV. Reports:
NoL
A Observer: From charter flight No. 46 AF 23-24 (?)to Wilm-
ington, Delaware. pass
ailable.
B. Data: Plane flying at 3000s Object
approxiinately 13,000r-20,000r, 1 furthe info as to size, size,
appearance, direction,
C. Location: In Zanesville, Ohio area. C. Location: In Zanesville, Ohio ar -
D.Time sighted: 1035Z D. Time sighted: 1035Z
E. Reporting Chamels: Reported from Cincinnatti 1115Z.
F. TWX report: None F. TMX report: None
No2
A. Observer: Dayton Tower.
B. Data: As I
No. 3
A. Zanesville Radio, Ohio. ~
B. As per attached ved 1005.
No
A. Observer: Lockbourne AFB
A. Manstield, Ohio
B. As per TWX received l005
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C
60 In Airliner Watch
Metallic Blob' In Sky
By ROBERT CRATER Washington. It made only one
Citizen Washington Bureau stop-at Denver.
WASHINGTON, July 23. - An COL. MOWERY SAID the crew
unidentified cbject described by told the passengers they had been
an Army colonel as a "metallic asked by radio to investigate the
blob"' was seen by the crew and object.
60 passengers of a transconti- The pilot explained he would
nental airliner over Columbus, O., make a sweeping circle, banking
the plane so that the passengers
June 26. could d look upward and see the
Alerted by radio to investigate Alerted by cadio to investigate object, object, too." Passengers crowded too." Passengers crowded
the object, the crew circied under the object, the crew circled under to to the the high side windows high side windows s and and
it at about 20,000 feet while the it at about 20.000 feet while the peered upward as the plane e cir- cir-
passengers taok a look at the cled high over Columbus. cled high over Columbus.
strange object.
"I had a brief glimpse of it
when the plane banked on the when the plane banked on the
turn," said Col. Fred Mowery, turn," said Col. Fred Mowery,
49, an Army doctor stationed
. here.
IT WAS ABOUT 7:30 a. m.
and the sun was shining. I saw
what looked like a metallic blob what looked like a metallic blob
directly overhead, sort of pear-
shaped. I saw the sun reflecting shaped. I saw the sun reflecting
from its suriace against the blue
sky.
I didn't see it long enough to
determine whether it was mov-
ing, or how far above us it was."
Many of the passengers thought
it was a flying saucer. The crew,
after completing the circle under
the object, proceeded toward
Washington. Col. Mowery said
he didn't know who radioed the
crew to investigate.
I DON'T BELIEVE in flying
saucers," Col. Mowery said. "I
don't know what I saw. It wasn't
like any aircraft I have seen."
Capt. Robert White of the Air
Force "flying saucer" detail here
said he hadn't heard of the report.
He said it may have been received
at Wright-Patterson Field at Day.
ton, but that the Air Force would
have no comment in any event.
The United Airlines plane was
en route irom San Francisco to

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No.6
A Observer: Zanesville (radio9, Ohio
B. Data: As per attached wir 1005.
No.Z
A. Columbus Tower, Ohio
D. As per attached TWX received 1005. This report noy given
on phone report at 0730 Capt. Greenley.

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DAYTON TOWER, UFOB DAYTON, OHIO REPORTS OBJECT MOVING TOWARD STATION DAYTON TOWER, UFOB B DAYTON, OHIO REPORTS OBJECT MOVING TOWARD STATION
VESTBOUND, DIFTANCE AND ALTITUDE UNKNOWN, OBJECT MOVING AGAINST
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HFD UFOB MANSFIELD, OHIO REPO..TS BALLON REPORTED TO BE UFOB TRACKING
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