Wallops Island: Bright yellow object sighted
On January 12, 1965, at 6:30 p.m., a NASA public relations employee and her husband observed a bright yellow object moving quickly over Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for two minutes.
Background
Event Details
On January 12, 1965 at 18:30, Milliner, a member of the NASA press office, and her husband were walking to their house near the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, when they noticed a bright yellow object. It moved rapidly across the facility and was watched for about two minutes.
Witnesses and Background
The observers were NASA employees, which has been cited as lending the sighting credibility. The event took place during a wave of UFO reports in Virginia in January 1965, including sightings on the 5th, 11th, and 14th of January in the region. The proximity to the NASA launch facility adds to its relevance, since routine activities such as Nike-Apache launches are documented, though none is known to match this object.
Significance
The report comes from Harold H. Deneault Jr. in Fate magazine and is held in UFO databases such as NICAP. There are no official explanations or evidence such as photographs, which makes it a typical visual report. In the context of the 1965 Virginia UFO wave it points to continued interest in unidentified aerial appearances near military installations.