As reported

Oval over Woodland Park, CO

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Orange disk in night sky

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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What would the paper say?

Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.

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Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1955-07-12 → 1955-07-29

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Walking into the house, I looked to the west night sky and saw what I thought was Orion’s Belt. I thought I was going nuts because I know that it is usually southish of my house at that time. Then I noticed a ball of light shoot out of one of the “stars” going up into the sky instead of down. This happened repeatedly in equal interval, creating a diagonal line up towards the north. So, I called my husband to verify that I wasn’t going crazy and he saw the same thing. It reminded me of the old shooting arcade games that shot things out with equal intervals. This lasted maybe 5 minutes before it stopped. I honestly have no idea how many there were, but there were maybe 5 in a row before the top one disappeared from view with a total of 13 in the series that I observed.

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