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302581751

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

1. DATE - TIME GROUP 17/032h 17 January '69 17/032h

2. LOCATION Crittenden, Virginia

3. SOURCE Civilian 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 90 - 120 Seconds 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual 7. COURSE S - NN

8. PHOTOS No 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE No

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CONCLUSION UNIDENTIFIED

BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS The Observer was awakened by a sound similar to the hum of an electric motor or a transformer that was in the process of going bad Upon looking out the bedroom window the observer sighted several amber lights that were arranged in an elliptical fashion (One was blinking). It appeared to have a slow forward up and down motion except when it made a left banking turn.

COMMENTS: The most likely stimulus was a helicopter with an unusual lighting system However a check of the airports in the area revealed that 3 definitely did not have any helicopter activity in the area and one other had destroyed flight records for that date and was therefore unable to say if any helicopter activity originated from their airfield that night It is also possible that some light aircraft such as those advertised as goodger blimp or an aircraft doing infra-red photography may have been the stimulus for this sighting However none of these theories have been definitively established

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