 Case Directory Category 1, Distant Encounters Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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| A Hynek Classification of Distant
Encounter is usually an incident involving an object more than 500 feet
from the witness. At night it is classified as a "nocturnal light" (NL)
and during the day as a "daylight disc" (DD). The size of the object or
the viewing conditions may render the object in greater detail but yet
not qualify the sighting as a Close Encounter which is an object within
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Tracking of Two Elliptical Objects
Feb. 4, 1953
Yuma County, Arizona
Feb. 4, 1953
Yuma County, Arizona
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Ridge: This report is case #26, on the official clearance list. of 41 formerly classified Air Technical Intelligence UFO reports cleared for Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk. Brad Sparks: Feb. 4, 1953; Yuma County Airport, Arizona (BBU 2388) At 1355 M.S.T., Stanley H. Brown, a Meteorological Aid
employed with the United States Weather Bureau, and private pilot,
while using a theodolite to follow a pilot balloon saw an object going
upward and curving to the west. About 20 seconds after sighting the
first object a second object came into the field of view. The first
object flew to the west, while the second object swooped across or near
the path of the first object three or four times. The two objects were
observed through the 32 power theodolite for a period of 5 minutes. The
objects were almost round, a solid, dull, pure white color, with a thin
white mist completely edging each object. (Project Blue Book files)
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