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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE - TME GROU. LOCATION
20 September 1954 Ionia, Michigan
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
3
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
. . Three nree objects giowing, traveling objects glowing, traveling across the sky at across cne sky ac
tremendous speeds at an extrene height.
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Grnd i Visual
7. COURSE
?
8. PHOTOS
Yes Yes
No
9. 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE )
Yes
No
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Ionia, Michigan (AP) Amate nomers mers Tuesday re-
ported to ported to civ efense afficials they efense afficials the racked three acked three
glowing, but unidentified objects, acros ky Monday Monday
night. he cbservers said the obiects ne cbservers said the obiects. v re traveling at raveling at
tremendous speed at an exireme height: tremendous speed at an extreme height. Spokesman for the
air filier defense center in Grand Rapids said there was air filter defense center in Grand Rapidsy said there- was
no radar contact with the objects. no radar contact with the objects.
The astronomers were The astronomers were and
32,of Ionia. 32,of.Ionia.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1954.
Cupsules of News
On Michigan Front
Flint Woman Heads State Library Board.
(Citizen Patriot Lansing Bureau) (Citizen Patriot Lansing Bureau)
Lansing-Election of Mrs. Verna Barkey of Flint as Lansing-Election of Mrs. Verna Barkey of Flint as
chairman of the state board for libraries was announced chairman of the state board for libraries was announced
Wednesday. She is sehool librarian. Wednesday. She is school librarian.
Arthur Yabroff, business manager of the Detroit publie
library, is viee chairman.
Other members of the board are Donald W. Kohlstedt
of Grand Rapids and Miss Anna E. Lindblom of Kalama-
zOo. zOO.
The board voted to ask the state department of admin-
istration and appropriate Iegislative committees to include
the state library and its law'division in the proposed jus-
tice building. Headquarters have been in rented s tice building. Headquarters have been in rented space space
since the 1951 state office building fire. since the 1951 state office building fire.
3 Glowing Sky Objects Reported.
Ionia -(AP)- Amateur astronomers Tuesday reported
to civil defense officials they had tracked three glowing,
but unidentified objects, across the sky Monday night.
The observers said the objects were traveling at tremen-
dous speed at an extreme height. Spokesmen for the
air filter defense center in Grand Rapids said there was no
radar contact with the objects.
The astronomers were Clarke Burgeon, 25, and Wil-
liam McLaughlin, 32, of Ionia.