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Harley Rutledge starts Project Identification at Piedmont, Missouri

Name: Harley Rutledge starts Project Identification at Piedmont, Missouri
Start: 1973
Location: Piedmont, MO

When: 1973
Where: Piedmont, MO
Sources: 3 public sources

Piedmont, Missouri, where Harley Rutledge's Project Identification observed lights Drowzy at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After several hundred calls about strange lights around Piedmont in early 1973, Southeast Missouri State physics professor Harley Rutledge led his own team to investigate. He issued a paper that year and expanded it into a 1981 book. No government inquiry took place.

Sources

OfficialState UFO Capitals of Missouri (opens in a new tab)Missouri Secretary of State
PressArea UFO expert Dr. Harley Rutledge, 80, dies (opens in a new tab)Southeast Missourian (TJ Greaney) / 2006-06-06
OtherProject Identification (catalog record) (opens in a new tab)Open Library (Prentice-Hall, 1981) / 1981

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