UFO Sighting - 16-20 Nov 64, Blue Hill, Maine

This document details a series of UFO sightings reported by students at a school in Blue Hill, Maine, between 16-20 November 1964, with a final sighting on 1 December 1964. The primary witness, a 5th-grade student, described a long, silver, needle-nosed object with a blunt rear and a rod protruding from the center of its body. The object was observed for 15 minutes from a second-floor classroom window, appearing at an angle of 25 degrees above the horizon before flying behind mountains to the Northeast. Following the 1 December report, an F-101 interceptor was scrambled from Dow Air Force Base. The interceptor identified a military B-52 aircraft in the area at 3,000 feet, flying a path consistent with the reported sightings. The investigation, conducted by Captain Richard B. Fritzshall and reviewed by Colonel Grover Y. Greene and Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr. of Project Blue Book, concluded that the sightings were likely the result of routine military training missions. The report highlights that the flight path of the reported object coincided with the Boothbay designated low-level air defense intercept area and the Logan 2-Norfolk 17 low-altitude high-speed route. The investigating officer noted discrepancies in the descriptions provided by the students and the teacher, suggesting that the sightings were misidentifications of routine military aircraft operating within established training airspace.