Lincoln Park, MichiganDecember 1962

Insufficient Data

Summary

On December 8, 1962, a civilian in Lincoln Park, Michigan reported seeing a fast blue twinkling light moving from east to west across the sky at 11:40 p.m. The sky was clear. The witness observed the object from a basement window for about 2 minutes before it moved out of sight. The witness took photos from the basement window. The Air Force noted a discrepancy between the reported sighting date of December 8 and the printing date of April 1962 on the photographs, and classified the case as conflicting data.

Reported location

Lincoln Park, Michigan

Date of incident

December 1962

State / country

MI / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 1073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 8 December 1962
2. LOCATION: Lincoln Park, Michigan
3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local 1140 PM, GMT 09/0540Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual
5. PHOTOS: Eyes, No
6. SOURCE: Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 2 minutes
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One
9. COURSE: West
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Sighting of fast blue twinkling light in flight in East to West. Sky clear. Photos taken fm basement window.
11. COMMENTS: Data for sighting listed as 8 December. Slides of supposed phenomena show printing date of April 62. Unusual obj on prints. Case carried as conflicting data in view of the discrepency in dates.
12. CONCLUSIONS: [X] Other, Conflicting Data
[blank] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[blank] Unknown

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