Form: 97 BB
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:56:09 +0100 (BST)
From: daniel wilson <daniejon2000@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Report of Unusual Object At Lockbourne AFB, Jan. 7, 1948
Cat: 1
To: Francis Ridge <nicap@insightbb.com>


 
DETACHMENT 733RD AF BASE UNIT
103RD AACS SQUADRON
LOCKBOURNE ARMY AIR BASE
Columbus 17, Ohio
 
SUBJECT: Report of Unusual Circumstance
1940 hours, January 7, 1948
Observation of strange light to the Southwest of Lockbourne. The object was 15 degrees above the horizon. It then descended to the horizon and then ascended to its original position. Its course was eliptical, counter clock wise. The witness was Airways Operator CAF-7.
 
(Brad Sparks:  This is the Lockbourne Control Tower operator who was an amateur astronomer, Frank M. Eisele, whose unsanitized report is elsewhere on BB Archives.)
 
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB2-511
 
 
Page ID (PID)  NARA-PBB2-511
Collection  National Archives (NARA)
Roll Description  NARA Blue Book Roll 2
Document Code  T1206-2
 
Frames  511 - 512