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Project Blue Book file, 9 December 1965 fireball

U.S. Air Force (hosted by The Black Vault) · 37 pages · text by OCR

This U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file, hosted by The Black Vault, covers a fireball seen on 9 December 1965 over Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Canada, and concludes it was a meteor. It holds memos on calls about Acme, Pennsylvania, where a search from the Oakdale Radar Site found nothing, plus letters from witnesses and a photographer. It also includes a Sky and Telescope article on the Great Lakes fireball and letters identifying material found in Lapeer County as chaff.

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  • p. 1 …CONCLUSION Astro(METEOR) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Seconds 11. BRIEF SUMMARY…
  • p. 4 …He said that is probably a bolide or a meteor. Major told him about the substance…
  • p. 18 …Though the brilliant light lasted only a few seconds, the meteor left a smoke train that…
  • p. 19 …Werner, a regional director for the American Meteor Society, submitted three sightings. One was by Howard…
  • p. 31 from Detroit, Michigan called in regards to the picture of the meteor which landed in Acme…
  • p. 32 …He explained the Major Howard that the thing could be a meteor or a bolide. He…
  • p. 33 …find out what he could about the meteor seen over Acme, Pennsylvania. We told him it…
MEMO FOR THE RECORD 10 December 1965

The Information Officer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called to find out what he could about the meteor seen over Acme, Pennsylvania. We told him it would be wise to contact the Pentagon, and possibly get the same statement which the Pentagon is releasing to the public.

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