PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8681111

DATE OF SIGHTINGAugust 1963

REPORTED LOCATIONCamp Springs Maryland Fort Belvoir Virginia

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD PROJECT YO073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Camp Springs, Maryland Springs, Maryland 0 Was Balloon
2 August 1963 Fort FortI Belvoir, Virginia 0 Probably Balloon
3. 3. DATE-TIME GROUP DATE-TIME GROUP 4TYPE OF OBSERVATION 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon Possibly Balloon
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
03/0330Z 03/0330Z 00 0 Probably Aircraft Probably Aircraft
GMT. GMT Air-Visuol AirVisuol Air-Intercept Radar 0 PossiblyAlrcraft Possibly Alrcraft
5. 5. PHOTOS PHOTOS . SOURCE 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical Was Astronomic FOMAeHA FoMACH
Yes Probably Astronomical Probably Astronomical
U No military and civilian 0 PossiblyAstronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION . NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other
DRD Insufficient Data for Evaluation
40 min plus west/s/west Unknown
one
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Round object, white, like a star in the Antares at 220 deg azimuth 10 deg
Southern sky at 20 deg elevation. Report that elevation. Fomalhaut at 140 deg 8zimuth
ob,ject remained vlsible and had motion from l0 deg elevation. These are the only ft
West to South to West. Object had variable astronomical bodies of the first mag cles
speed and variable intensity. in the Southern Sky from this position
at this time. It is possible that the
direction reported as South may have been
in error and one of these objects misin-
terpreted. It is also possible that a
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