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 PRO)4   :   Chief, Detroit 0:::.,,;e
 ES GOVERNMENT
 bATEt  16 December 1960
 svslsrr:    Bighting of Unusual Object
 1.   If the USAF Is still i.nteretxted in-unidentified ob
 be interested in. the - following -recort given to us
 2.   'At about 6:54-pn Nednesdey, 14 Deter  }fa0, I had the isdio on _and
 was listening to a pro gram~the.second three star. report which would fix-the exact
 time).  I looked out to the left (about due east) and saw an. object.. that -looked --        -
 like a meteor except that it was. extremely-large and almost like- a disc, - not like
 c point of light. It vass_a.greenish limit (just o~ ate), but g     and quite
 visible to me.  I may not have-picked It-up aasoon aa_ it appeared -but it
 visible to me at, an angle of_an elevation. of about .50 to S5 degrees. and it crone doyn
 to within about 20 degrees elevation.  Of-course it. Is-impossible to estimate
 distance as I didn't knov_vhat I was looki.ng.at,m-_lirst impression xos_tt:at_it
 would land In the Detroit River.-It-was. soon    at-  sn11e:.to_the-vertical of about
 10 degrees, running off_to_the_ rig  =Cr. the south.... It eventually burned out before
 it got to the ground.  The thief Vhich astonished me about it-vas that-it is not
 t   meteorite season end it vas.much-bigger-than -anything_I:hW_e~ter:"seen.-_Itvas
 definitely Incandescent, and of a very-high temperature
 WNW,
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 3.    "During MY clue-a-little titer I asked'iL.4any of. tbe_students_bad-_seeu
 this.ob ect.  Out of 25-in the class,
 was the-only one who saw . it. Fk-siid he vas-doing east-on Hi~oes    ve.
 He thought it was going to lend eVXhe end _ot. Hines Drive.' Rirsea - DF'iv~e rruans .seat
 and vest. Ile-said be was about =tvo_or_thkee=miles=vest ot` Tel&a1h_Arid when-asked
 about where It vas--in-to -landbe-said about Tcle
 Co  g                           gxeph   Telegr6lb fs -a  ut three
 miles vest of where Ivas, so= that meazis hi. judged that it was-closei.--:This- error
 in his estimate verifies-that it must have bean a sizeable object because it was
 east of me and It looked big to W. - He. said he vas-drivinkfatrly-fast ..when be saw.
 it, but had exactly the same -impressionJ-di
 4.   "Another student
 who vu not in my class last night, said be. saw it.  ho  ver,-Rine not had
 opportunity to question him.
 5. 'This was not flying saucer atuff.  I say. that only in the sense that- I -
 have 'worked all my life e-vitb high temperatures...- I am a doctor here in dynamics and
 physics and I know a high temperature vheu I ace it._ That's why I would say the
 Abject was way up in temperature.  I thought it might be related to some part of a
 missile or something similar. _ It was _ g lbg at a high_vmlocity and had to- in -order -
 to reach the temperature it was at."
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