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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 10 January 65 11/0015Z  |
| --- | --- |
|  2. SOURCE | XXX Civilian  |
|  3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | One  |
|  4. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | Few Seconds  |
|  5. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Ground-Visual  |
|  6. COURSE | South  |
|  7. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No  |
|  8. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE | ☐ Yes ☑ No  |
|  9. LOCATION | South Boston, Virginia  |
|  10. CONCLUSION | Astronomical (METHOD) Sighting descriptive of meteor observation.  |
|  11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS | Large object assumed to be a large falling star. Accompanied by hissing noise. Flight North to South. Legt trail of spa…

27 April 1965

Dear Mr. [redacted]

This is in reply to your letter of January 15, 1965, to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in which you related an observation of an aerial object which you could not identify.

The object which you sighted was a meteor. Your observation has a positive association with a meteor which was sighted in Silver Spring, Maryland, at that time.

I am enclosing for your information a copy of the current report on Project Blue Book, the Air Force project on unidentified flying objects. This report should give you an insight into the UFO program conducted by the Air Force.

S…

APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE

South Boston, Pa. 24592

1/15/65
Special Hundred Feet Long

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio.

Gentlemen:

Sunday Night January 10, 1964 at approx
imately 7:15 P.M., I saw an object in the
sky that frightened me.

A loud hewing noise made me look
up and I saw something that I assumed
was a large falling star. The object was
traveling from North to South and left
a long trail of sparks that looked like
a huge child's sparkler. I could only see
this for a few seconds because of clouds.

After a couple of minutes, I heard several
planes overhead, perhaps they…

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

1st Endorsement
372

10 January 1965
South Boston, Virginia

No Case, Information Only
Sourcet: MISC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1

South Boston, Virginia...January 10, 1965...Two men say they saw a UFO over the city at about 7:30 P.M. Although the men were about three miles apart at the time, Lowell Strickland and Dr. George L. Wilkinson apparently saw the same object.

Strickland, a business man, and a former chairman of the South Boston planning commission, was at work stop a downtown building when he saw the object. He said it was elliptical in shape and about 100 S. long, and had flaming sparks shooting out behind it a…