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This U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file, hosted by The Black Vault, covers a fireball seen on 9 December 1965 over Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Canada, and concludes it was a meteor. It holds memos on calls about Acme, Pennsylvania, where a search from the Oakdale Radar Site found nothing, plus letters from witnesses and a photographer. It also includes a Sky and Telescope article on the Great Lakes fireball and letters identifying material found in Lapeer County as chaff.
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Source: Saucer News, Vol 13, #1, Mar 66 On the afternoon of December 9th, a mysterious fireball made its way across seven northeastern states and part of Canada, and was sighted by airline pilots as well as by hundreds of other people. Strange metal strips were found in a swamp 40 miles north of Detroit, and a large wooded area about 30 miles from Pittsburg, Pa. was sealed off for several hours while a thorough search for debris was made by hundreds of members of the Army's 662nd Radar Squadron, state police, and volunteers. Nothing was found, however. Officials state that a meteorite was probably the cause of it all, but the times involved indicate that the object was traveling much too slow for a meteorite. There is also evidence that it changed course in flight. (N.Y. Journal-American, 12/10/65; The Jersey City N. J. Journal, 12/10/65; Ouluth, Minn. News-Tribune, 12/10/65; UPI; etc.)...
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