PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8296203

DATE OF SIGHTINGAugust 1961

REPORTED LOCATIONStockbridge Massachusetts

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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Possibly Astronomical

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Ks TSCT MELVIN LIZSERMAN, NCOIC, COMBAT INTELLIGENCE GRANCH,
INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, 99TH B0MNBYG, WESTOVER AFB,

OgsbaweR IS A PHYSICIAN AND DOES NOT APPEAR GIVEN TO FLIGHTS OF

FANCY. HE STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THAT THE SIGHTING WAS ECHO TI;

HOWEVER, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE OSSERVATORY, CAMSRIDGE, MASS EN~

FORMED US THAT ECHO I WOULD HAVE BEEN VISIBLE AT THIS LATITUDE

AT 92432 AND WOULD HAVE APPEARED IN THE SOUTEAST AND WOULD

Hav BEEN TRAVELING SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST AT AN ALTITUDE OF 37 DEGREE.

THAT OBJECT APPEARED TO BE SHINING BY REF LECT=D

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LIGHT SINCE IT WAS BRIGHTER AT FIRST SIGHT AND APPEARED TO GROW

SOMEWHAT DIMME2 LATER, NO CONCLUSION AS TO NATURE OF SIGHTING.

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