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Project 10073 Record: Bellbrook, Ohio Sighting

📅 1968 📍 BELLBROOK, OHIO 🏛 Aerial Phenomena Office 📄 sighting_report
BellbrookOhioUFOProject 10073Aerial Phenomena OfficeHector Quintanilla

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A 1968 UFO sighting report from Bellbrook, Ohio, was classified as having insufficient data for evaluation. The Air Force requested additional information from the witness via an AF Form 117, which was not returned.

This document consists of a Project 10073 record regarding a UFO sighting in Bellbrook, Ohio, in 1968. The official evaluation concluded that there was insufficient data to conduct a scientific investigation. The file includes a letter from Lt. Colonel Hector Quintanilla, Jr., of the Air Force's Aerial Phenomena Office, addressed to the civilian witness, requesting that she complete an AF Form 117 to provide more details about her sighting. The document also contains a handwritten note from the witness describing the object. According to the witness, the object was shaped like a child's top, was white in color, and could remain completely motionless in the air. The witness further noted that the object was completely silent, could travel at speeds far greater than any jet, and could move straight up or down, unlike an airplane. In some instances, the witness described the object as looking like a cloud. As of September 3, 1968, the requested AF Form 117 had not been returned to the Air Force.

What I saw was: A craft that could remain completely motionless in the air; thus being able to remain still to make pictures. It is shaped like a child's top. It goes at a far greater speed than any jet. Completely silent. Can come straight down or go straight up. Not taking off like an airplane. It is white in color; in some instances looking not unlike a cloud.

Official Assessment

INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION

The observer provided insufficient information for a scientific investigation, and a follow-up request for an AF Form 117 remained unreturned as of 3 September 1968.

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