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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 23 May 64 | 2. LOCATION | East Lansing, Michigan  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local GMT 24/0206Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | civilian  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 2 - 3 seconds | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | one  |
|  9. COURSE |   |   | West  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |   |   | Brilliant white light moving East to West through 30 deg arc in 2-3 seconds before winking out. Elliptical shape. Brightness of Venus. SEE LA…

6. Britton-Thornton. At 2106 hours on 23 May 1964, a Corporal Thornton at the Michigan State Police Headquarters, East Lansing, Michigan, received a call from a woman who said an object (a light) was hovering over her house, "acting crazy," dashing back and forth and looping about. Since the Corporal recognized her given location as being near the police station, he went out the rear entrance and looked to the south, but saw nothing. He did not log the name of the lady, nor does he remember it. After terminating the call, he went back outside, and while looking due south, saw an extremely bril…

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further.

At 2136 hours, a call was received from a University Village, Michigan State University, East Lansing (about three blocks from the State Police headquarters), reporting a sighting of what appears to be the same object that Thornton saw.

Thornton was emphatic about the fact that he had never seen such a strange object in all his life. He was reluctant to talk about it, expressing some regret that he had ever "opened his mouth" about it. Investigator had a slight impression that Thornton was perhaps not mentioning all the reasons he had for thinking that the object was so stran…

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then for the object to travel thirty degrees in three seconds, or ten degrees per second, it would have to have been about 26 miles away; even with an elevation of thirty degrees (an upper limit) it would thus have been only about 13 or 14 miles high. In order for the meteor, if it was such, to have been at a more proper height, the line of sight distance would have to be at least four to six times the distance just calculated, and the velocity would have to have been very high, perhaps 20 to 30 miles per second.

The sudden cessation of light, with no trail left behind, no shattering …

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reported during the personal interview. The similarity in brightness and color had misled them.

Final note: if the cutoff point had been on a line of sight passing through both observers, then no horizontal triangulation is meaningful. Elevation angles estimates are too uncertain to permit estimates.

With fair probability, the object may be taken to have been a fast, bright meteor, a fireball, far to the south and many miles high. If so, it could have been seen in northern central Indiana, and would have been brightest somewhere over the Indiana-Michigan border.

The object seen by [r…

|  1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS  |
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|  26 May 64 | East Lansing, Michigan | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 26/2030 GMT 27/0130Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft  |
|  5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE civilian | ☑ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3 seconds | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one | 9. COURSE South (Stationary)  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF…

3. sighting. The witnesses are students at Michigan State University, where the sighting occurred, but had returned home by the time of this investigation, where they were contacted by telephone. lives during the summer at Street, Flint 3, Michigan, and lives in the summer at Street, Grand Haven, Michigan. During the school year, they reside in Shaw Hall, Michigan State University.

and were returning to their residence after a speech on campus by Governor Romney, which ended at 2000 hours, 26 May 1964. The time is uncertain but may be somewhat previous to the sighting above, by perhaps fiftee…

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the full moon. It was bluish or metallic colored, and was surrounded by a blue haze, mixed with white.

According to [redacted], the object remained stationary, tilted toward the South, all this time, and then emitted a brilliant white flash, like a magnesium flare or bomb. Immediately after the flash, the object was gone, and [redacted] looked about for it but did not see it.

According to [redacted] who looked later and just caught a brief glimpse prior to the white flash, the light did flash a brilliant magnesium white, but then the object travelled at high speed from due east toward…