Oakhurst, N. J., June 1959June 1959

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Summary

On the night of January 5, 1959, witnesses in Oakhurst, New Jersey saw eleven round white lights, each about the size of a baseball at arm's length. The lights traveled in single file, with about seven minutes between them. One report described a shadowy object that looked like a plane without wings. The lights appeared low on the southwest horizon, climbed very high, then dropped toward the far horizon to the northeast and hovered over the water. They formed various shapes, like the five on a set of dice and a crescent. The whole event lasted about one hour and fifteen minutes. This was a civilian, ground visual report.

The report was filed on Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force concluded the lights were probably aircraft that were in the area at the time.

Reported location

Oakhurst, N. J., June 1959

Date of incident

June 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

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g PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

; | DATE le LGCATION RT ENGL STONE Sinn

3 | : : ; J Yes Balloon

: | oO Jan 59 {dak blued t vedi FTI C0 Probably Balloon

3 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OSSERVATION ll ee

; Ya’) mam ; 3 - Was Aircraft

! G “Vig 0 Ground-R

E Viyeals is CET ee 0; Ground- Yi sual CGround-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft

7 Gira =O TO Vee Ea | 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

a 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 1 Was Astronomical

E C Yes {0 Probably Astronomical

: 8 No Sra, 0 Possibly Astronomical

; 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE algo] | a EA SRN
i O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
8 1 3 0 Unknown

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2 10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS i eo
E hleven rnd, © Rite ol 3 : Joe of ba Ba y Probahl i] 1 ght Eo 0) igh 2 Wi 1 £ J 3

i traveling single file, approx seven mins nf y which were in vicinity at time of

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