Ft. Banning (Lawson Fla) Columbus, GeorgiaJune 1962

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Summary

On June 19, 1962, military and civilian observers west of Columbus, Georgia, near Fort Benning, reported a star-like object. It was first seen about 1950 (7:50 p.m.) and viewed for about 1 hour and 10 minutes.

The object was round and silver in color. It was viewed with 7x50 binoculars. There was no apparent motion. The observers included Army aviation personnel at Lawson Field.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force noted the planet Venus was at an azimuth of about 275 degrees and an elevation of about 28 degrees at the hour of the sighting, with a magnitude of about -3.4. Officials concluded the object was probably the planet Venus.

Reported location

Ft. Banning (Lawson Fla) Columbus, Georgia

Date of incident

June 1962

State / country

GA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

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J PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE Z. LOCATION | 12.” concLUsioNs |
+ Bonning (Lawson Fla) SRE
3 : LU penning AaAWSOon dia |o Was Balloon
19 Jun 62 | Columbus, QGzorgia {0 Probably Balloon i
3 3. DATE-TIME CROUP | 4 TYPE OF OBSERYATION 14 TesaBly Snlioon
16/1930 Pr a NT a AE Is Was Aircraft
EL PEE EI She A SS RRR SE | Grounde goal frien aan Radar |a Probably Aircroft |
& an a o lan.) DLINOCU Co 5 3a i
: (oi fo po DE 1 0 Do 8 6 VA Shi 0 Air-Visval 0 Air-Intercept Radar {9 Possibly Aircraft
4 5. PHOTOS x Eo SOURCE VA INTE RR sien 0 Was Astronomical V2 5
; C Yes 1 Probably Astronomical
E © -No | Military & Civilian C Possibly Astronomical
Cel EE RE Pl LAT A Ee SUR SUC LO SC AC XR HER
: 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF CBJECTS | 9. COURSE EoOthetis osc ar Lb
1 | 0 lasufficient Data for Evaluation
v 1 1 | aT 7
Fahy BU mains | one N/A 9 Ran
k 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Tr Rea |
3 A rnd star llke obj was observed West |The bbj of this. sighting was prob
p of Columbus, Ga at approx 1950 hrs & [ably the planet Venus. Venus was
E | viewed for approx 1 hr 10 mins, The lat an azimuth of 275dgr & an elev
1 obj was viewed w/7x50 binoculars. The |of 28dgr at the hr of the sightin [-
3 color of the dj was rptd to be silver |The planets magnitude on this dat
1 % there was no apparent motion, was -3j4, The planet did not se |
& at this lo ation unt i ! FAP HST
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bi ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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