Declassified UFO / UAP Document
PROJECT 10073 RECORD — Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 25 March 1966
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A federal employee reported a silent, brilliant, low-flying object in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on March 25, 1966. The official military conclusion identified the object as a probable satellite.
On March 25, 1966, Mrs. Thelma W. Durham, a federal government employee, witnessed an unidentified aerial object while driving near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She reported that the object was significantly larger than a full moon, emitted a brilliant light that dimmed and brightened, and featured a flashing red signal light. The object traveled due east at approximately the speed of an airplane but remained silent and appeared to hover at times. Mrs. Durham observed the object for over ten minutes, eventually stopping at the home of Mrs. Helen Balloue to watch it together. Mrs. Durham explicitly rejected contemporary explanations provided by astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who had attributed similar sightings in Michigan to swamp gas or student pranks. She maintained that the object she witnessed was a mechanical vehicle. The official Project 10073 record for this incident concludes that the object was a 'Probable SATELLITE'.
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Official Assessment
Probable SATELLITE
The official conclusion categorized the sighting as a probable satellite, despite the witness's insistence that it was a mechanical vehicle.
Witnesses
- Thelma W. DurhamMrs.Federal Government employee
- Helen Balloue
Key Persons
- Gerald R. FordRepresentative
- J. Allen HynekAstronomer and Air Force consultant