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|  1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS  |
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|  June or July 1956 | Warrenton, Virginia | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 2 AM CMT | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft  |
|  5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE Civilian (then military) | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5-7 minutes | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 6 or 7 | 9. COURSE stationary  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMM…

1956

|  CO. & SHEET |   | SUSPENSE  |   |
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|  ORIGIN OF BASIC |  | DATE | ASSIGNED BY  |
|  DATE | TYPE | NO. |   |

SUBJECT: UFO Report and Manuscript - Mr. Sierra Madre, California

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April 16th 1958
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Dear Sirs:

I am very ashamed that I haven't written you before now. I'll try to be as complete as I can considering the lapse of time, however, and perhaps the details will explain something of the delay.

I cannot fix the exact date - perhaps I could pin it down by research - I didn't make a note of it because I felt sure I would remember. It was on a Saturday night - that is Sunday morning of the month of either mid-June or early July. I was based at Vint Hill Farms Station - near Carrenton, Virginia - a Specialist 3rd class at the time - Army. I had been dating a girl i…

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could see of the tree - it being lit slightly - to see a semi-sillouhette of the upper branches. Consequently I placed the lights in the yard of the house itself - I was a distance of approximately 200 yards from the objects.

At this point I remembered reading an article some time previously in a magazine I picked up in a latrine somewhere - concerning similar lights that had been seen in Australia - unexplained but seen on various occasions - (I am enclosing the article - as I have since relocated it).

These are described very similarly to what I saw.

This was in 1956 - just prior to …

(Here is a copy of the article I mentioned in relation to the lights - another reason why I didn't (mediately notify you - or (the lights seriously - I am not in the habit of reading these magazines - but happened to have kept this one)

from: FATE magazine (ANU) August 1953 (True stories of the strange and the unknown ((don't laugh)))

MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS
- of Australia
by

Those of you who have not visited Australia may never have heard of its "Min-Min Light", a phenomenon familiar to nearly all Australians. Visible only at night, the "Min-Min Light" is a huge globe of brilliant light which so…

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light kept "just ahead" of him all the time and vanished when he approached the old inn.

Another Australian "ghost light" is seen frequently on the stock-route, near Bourke, in northwest New South Wales. It is observed during the Summer months and drovers, already acquainted with it, will not camp overnight in the area as the light invariably stampedes their horses and cattle with disastrous results.

Apparently these mystery lights strike terror into the hearts of animals! Horses steadfastly refuse to enter the gateway over which a strange light dances on a farm in north-w…