302548136.pdf

|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  25 Mar 66 26/0130Z | Pine Bluff, Arkansas  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian |   |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | Probable SATELLITE  |
|  One |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  10 Minutes | Object was brighter than a full moon. Would dim then brighten. Object was traveling due east. Seemed to see a red light blink on and off occasional. Observer stated that the object traveled about the speed of a plane but it was very close to the ground. Several times the object appeared to stand still th…

Pine Bluff, Arkansas
26 March 1966

The Department of Defense
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

After reading the attached and having witnessed only last night a strange object in the sky, which I will explain, I am wondering if an intensive investigation would reveal the true identity of these objects, which I am sure are not hatched up stories, as is indicated by the attached clipping; or something college boys devise.

I am an employee of the Federal Government in an important defense plant since 1942. I have never seen or looked for one of these strange objects I have heard and read so much a…

no multi-color appearance; no streaking, blinking, winking, zooming or otherwise circus acts as is indicated in the attached clipping. As stated the strange and unusual difference between this and other planes was the brilliant light, its silence and the closeness to the earth, the fact several times this object appeared perfectly still. The red signal was proof this thing was some sort of man made mechanical flying vehicle or plane of some sort.

This report of the object I witnessed is for what it may be worth in the interest of our government.

Sincerely,

(3301 Poplar Street) Thelma W. Dur…

Air Force Expert
'Identifies' UFO's
Times-Post News Service
(Washington Post)

WASHINGTON — Michigan's much-publicized and
niful unidentified flying objects have been identified.
They turn out to be will o' the wisps, college-boy
nks and the moon in March.

This is the official explanation by Air Force experts who
investigated reports of the color-
ful, glowing, flying, zooming,
winking, awesome, blinking,
streaking, hovering objects that
have captured southern Michi-
gan's imagination.

Meanwhile, back in Washington,
Representative Gerald R.
Ford of Michigan said it would
be "a very wholesome…