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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  27 June 65 28/0300Z | Landover Hills, Maryland  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | Satellite (ECHO I)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | ECHO I at 2203 Local moving NE North of city at 70 deg elevation. Time EST. Object evaluated as ECHO I if time was EST and NOT Daylight Savings Time. If time was EST then some other Satellite was the likely cause.  |
|  One |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  10 - 15 Seconds | Starlike object moving steadily across sky from West to East Stopped and observer …

Mrs Hunt/man/SAFOICC/72842/6 Aug 65

AUG - 9 1965

Dear Miss [redacted]:

This is in reply to your letter reporting an aerial object which you observed on the night of 27 June 1965.

At 10:03 EST on this date, Echo I was visible in your area moving northeast at 70 degrees elevation. This was the object you sighted if your report was given in Daylight Saving Time, instead of Eastern Standard Time. If the time you reported was Eastern Standard Time, then another satellite of the same or of a higher magnitude was the probable cause of your sighting.

Sincerely,

JOHN F. SPAULDING
Lt Colonel, USAF…

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Ref the attached ltrs frm TDEW, UFO Sightings on 27 Jun 65 at Grantsville and Landover Hills, Md, sub paragraph a. As reads: . . . magnitude was the case . . . Please change this to: . . . magnitude was the probable cause. …

JUL 22 1965

TDEW

UFO Sighting, Landover Hills, Maryland, 27 Jun 65

Hq USAF SAFOICC (Mrs Hunt)
Wash D.C. 20330

Reference the attached letter from [redacted] reporting an unidentified object which she observed on the night of 27 June 1965.

A ECHO I, at 2203 EST, was North of the City, moving its seven degrees elevation. Her sighting is ECHO I if the time given was EST and not Daylight Savings Time. However, if the time given was DST then another satellite of the same or no higher magnitude was the cause of her sighting.

As satellites pass into the earth's shadow they are no longer visible …

7/12/65

Sirs,

On Sunday, June 27, at approx. 10 o'clock p.m. I saw a starleke object suddenly move steadily across a small span of sky west to east over the Landover Hills, Md area. In ten to fifteen seconds it stopped, and I could not find it again.

I dismissed it at the time and hoped to hear a report in the news on Monday since there are many radar stations in the Washington area and if it was a foreign object it would surely be detected. So I just figured it was a star or satellite.

But later on during the week I was excited to hear about a similar object passing over Antarctica (going…