Columbus, OhioOctober 1951

Unidentified

Summary

On October 2, 1951, at 2300 (11:00 p.m.) Greenwich time, a civilian near Columbus, Ohio, reported a glowing object. It was seen for about one minute. The object made no sound and appeared to turn more orange as it moved farther from the observer.

The witness first thought a flash came from a balloon. The object faded and grew smaller as if going away, and it appeared slightly smaller than the fuselage of a DC-3. The Air Force listed the case as unidentified.

Reported location

Columbus, Ohio

Date of incident

October 1951

State / country

OH / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 8

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 1

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| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| EE ~OCATION "12. CONCLUSIONS
¢ He 2 0 Was Bolloon
2 October 1951 Columbus, Ohio O Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OISERVATION =O Pessibly Bolieon
] [o,
| FERS SEN O'Ground-Visval BD Ground-Rodor - nh ny v4 p
02/23007 D Possibly Aircraft
l 3 BER AT cad 0 Ai~Visuol O Air-Intarcopt Rader PONY vee
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicol
] 0 Yas D Probably Astronomicol
OB Ne Civilian ; O Possibly Astronomical
EE ————————————————— A ——————————————————————————————————— aa | W ET PVT 10T +1 "
EB 7. LENGTH OF D3S8ZRVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 9° Other UNILITIFIED
i 0 mag Dato for Evoluotion
3 0 nk nown
| 3 | 1 Minute 1 15
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1h. COMMENTS
\ . . NTO PPTWT WY
| Appeared to orange as increased distance from URIDEITIFLED
observer, Glowing object, No sound, Saw flash
First impression wns that flash was from a
; balloon. Faded and dimished in size as though
i © | going away from observer, Size was slightly
less than DC-3 Fuselage.
—— ————————— —— — —— — eo —— ———— ——— ——. ——— ———— Ae  ————.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP §2)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28939958