| 10 Jul 1952 - Quantico, Virginia, USA |
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10 July 1952 20:18 Quantico, Virginia, USA 
Very bright amber glow, stationary then climbing slowly. Explanation: Aircraft.
Pilot of National Airlines Flight 42, a C-60 aircraft, saw a very bright amber glow, stationary then climbing slowly till disappearance. A green fireball was observed. One green star was observed by one witness at a military facility for two minutes. Ruppelt's account: On July 10 the crew of a National Airlines plane reported a light "too bright to be a lighted balloon and too slow to be a big meteor" while they were flying south at 2,000 feet near Quantico, Virginia, just south of Washington. Hynek rating: NL: Nocturnal Lights Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky. Other sightings in this area Sources: - 55 - 91 - 100 - 220 - 249 - 676 |
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