PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7071862

DATE OF SIGHTINGOctober 1956

REPORTED LOCATIONCovington Kentucky

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon /
14 October 1956 Covington,Kentucky D Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 PossiblyBalloon
Local_ 1600 Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar Was Aircraft
a Probobly Aircroft
GMT. 14/1900Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar D PossiblyAircraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
Yes 00 00 Probably Astronomical Probably Astronomical
XNo Civilian Civilian PossiblyAstronomical
7. LENGTH OP OBSERVATION 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION B. NUMBER OF B. NUMBER O COURSE 0 0 Other_
0D 0D Insufficient Data for Insufficient Data for Evaluation
brief stationary Unknown
one one
O. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING O. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Brilliant object observed from object observed from Insufficient data for evaluation.
car whilo traveling in town in
traffic. Described as bright light traffic. Described as bright light
about l/4 size of moon. One block later about l/4 size moon. One block late
object was gone. Stationury. Unusually
brilliant and large. brilliant and large.
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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SBP S2)
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The whola
to ih tam bus thia did pav. Ky ri and sen trere dth ae at the time.
She vas drirlag
Mr. and d Pike, Ft, Thomas, Ky.
Osjeot rizated in Morthget fren  ghland Hie, Ky about lo m, Mr.
deseribad the object us Large, abont Phe 3i nickel hald
aa's gun setal gray and vithout nge or tail
said the object appeared mary for abcut
oer lh, plus o. 1
value csegand. .
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aligiht of the iaternatienal.erisis..A:bops.that I your 1
saniand more thoreughly and expeditionaly. I bavo aot yet phaned Lt, Colonel
J. T. Groene in Waaningtca in regard te the matter dscuased by phana on Nov- -
eaber 5, 1956. I doliare a phon call wmuld enly add te the zenfnsien alrnady
exiating as to ry statr. I aight y by latur, f, hooing that clarifi-
cation ight sbtaiaable.
Sinse
73, Ple elased photaerachs and negatives to the writor aftar
lert them in wibility.
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easlly axplairsd. Takon throuzh his telescope, Mr. sald thas he knew of
no light of any kind before his Lens, nar was he oware or any umuaual lights in
the sy, that iss, any lights arpearing g nearby wnich woild show uo at the size
indicated. Havevir, througn pewerril maghification an:abjeu,'eppa-ring visuall,
as epimpoint of light, show 13 photozraphed. Ruled out were Newton ring
phenomera.
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Mr
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malay. K
tueky abr said the aky mae dyep blne,
no wind. dle driring in trarfie, he saw Larg bright light abont quarter the
siae o Mll • aaid'the object was stationary. By the dw be had
roawhed the axt dlack, which arfordld a viaual claaring of the sky, tbe
bjeet had disappearnd. atrrased the faet that the ohject was
cuarally brilliant 2n0 .a raled ut reflaotion on airoraft as an
xulanaiio. Mr. has licsnse.