Piedmont, Missouri (Project Identification)
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Piedmont, Missouri
The town of Piedmont in Wayne County, Missouri, scene of the 1973 wave of light sightings that drew a Southeast Missouri State University investigation. Location photograph · context.
Drowzy at English Wikipedia · 2007 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗A wave of night-light reports around Piedmont in 1973 led physicist Harley Rutledge to run Project Identification, a field study with cameras and instruments over several years. Rutledge published unexplained residual cases; sceptics point to aircraft, stars and expectation. Included from the earlier atlas; not discussed in the interviews.
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37.1539, -90.6958 approximate
Town of Piedmont, Wayne County, from public gazetteer; observation posts were spread over the surrounding hills.
Wayne County, Missouri, United States
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