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Edwards AFB lights and recorded radio traffic

When: 7 Oct 1965
Where: Edwards AFB, CA
Sources: 1 public source

Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where the lights were reported in 1965 Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Edwards Air Force Base reported about a dozen moving lights over the base on October 7, 1965; an F-106 was scrambled and found nothing. About 40 minutes of a six-hour recording of the night's radio and phone traffic were declassified when Blue Book closed.

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PressWhat the 1965 UFO Sighting at Edwards Air Force Base Means 50 Years Later (opens in a new tab)Inverse / 2015-10-07

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