PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7203367

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1958

REPORTED LOCATIONDayton Ohio

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
. Was Balloon
4 December 1958 Dayton, Ohio 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bolloon
Local_ Ground-Visual Ground-Radar D Was Aircraft
00 Probably Aircraft
GMT. 05/0430Z AinVisual Air-Intercept Rador Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
O.Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
aNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other.
DX Insufficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
not given one
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Faash of light accompanied by a muffled Description is typical of
retort, An orange sphere, size of lightening; however, witness
grapefruit the west. Object was should be familiar with this
above trees and houses, but not high. phenomena. Case evaluated as
insufficient data.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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flash came and I looked out the front windows and saw a great flash of
light--orange-yellow with pink at the extremity. Since I looked north I
did not see the object in the west. . This had "exploded" again when I saw the
flash in the front yard. I looked west after the flash and observed an
Paul Welch homes. The object was above the trees and house t tops but not
high in the sky, rather more on the horizon. It glowed orange in color be-
tween"explosions". After the fourth flash, or "explosion", it glowed
three or four seconds, then disappeared.  It did not move away or grow dim.
but went out as one would turn off an electric light bulb. I The object did
The terrain falls sharply intthe west beyond
.the Welch homes so one would assume this object to be either air borne to
shot as a bullet, leaving the object and exploding in the yard. The ac-

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Dayton 29, this
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