DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE8687662
DATE OF SIGHTINGMay 1961
REPORTED LOCATIONSmyrna Delaware
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}% DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-Timé CROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Posty Saloon
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5. PHOTOS 6. $0URCE G Wea Astronomical **
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Ne Vu nm O Pes sibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION [2. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | % CouRSe jg |. |O0 Other ;
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS
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25. Where were you located when you saw the object? 26. Were you (Circle One)
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a.! Inside a building b. tn the residential section of o city?
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28.1 het direction were you moving? (Circle Ona)
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28.2 Mow fast were you moving?__ miles per hour.
28.3 O'd you stop at any time while you were looking at the object?
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; U.S. AIR FORCE TECHNICAL INFORMATION SHEET
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ln order thet your information moy be filed c nd coded as accurately as po ssidlte, pease use
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Your latter of lay 25th addressed to ‘he -resident of the
United States has been referred :o *his office, The Uv. 5S. iir vore
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nuridentifl flying odject reports.
The date of your signting along with tne Sloe and description
of the ootects and its moverents, correlates aporocimzately to that
of a radiosonde (RA0BS) launched from sterling, irvinia. This is
a balloon lifted radio transuitter with unpacked carachute ( ee
altach ate rurmose is to provide ‘temperatures and and invormati
at hi in a altitudes. It rises to accremely hich altitudes, well anove
the “sposrners. Finally, due *o maxizun expansion and very lcw
Lomperature, the valioon bursts, sending frazgzents iA several dizrsctions
a5 cish velocities. ‘“owever obner locations launch similar balloons.
A check with the information officer at Dover ATS would confirm this
along with launch schedules,
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taunched from Sterling, Virginia. from onyrma, yo sanould look
between asimth 2730 decrees and 300 decrees 2b altitudes varying
from rear the horizon to about 560 dezrees between 7:45 Pi and
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+30C P.M, all times dayliznt. LP you see it, it should be extremly
bright. For the RACBS from Dover Ar} (1f they ars launching), you
should look generally in the same arva of previous sightings. The
ssitisns will vary vith the Kish altitude wind velocities an
\i=astrons.
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