I understand this isn’t anything super crazy, and probably a reasonable explanation. My grandparents had this appear in the field next to their property in Michigan, and as the story goes, they were informed not to touch or take pictures. My grandpa being the guy he is, obviously doesn’t listen and actually removes a small piece, pictured. This has always been a “secret family story” because my grandparents thought it was a huge conspiracy back in the 70s, but I’m just looking for some clarification on what this actually was. There is a description of the event written on the Manila envelope, I hope it’s legible to others. I’m not sure if the newspaper clippings relate to this same object, or something different. Both are gone now, so any questions are left unanswered as to what they thought about it. Please let me know if you need to see better pictures of anything!
by Cultural_Effort_4915
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Envelope says:
“Not(?) that this was thought to be a UFO until it landed near our field and was identified as a secret project.
The pictures here show the project as it was taken apart, checked and then put back together to be hauled away in a rental truck.
This fell off a crate between Grand Blanc & Hadrick Mich. in the fall of 1974.
Road blocks were put up to keep suckers out as the scientist came from all over to check the experiment.
Very little was said or written about this project so to this day many people who seen the bright light (which were caused by the sun light catching the object above the dark of night) will always think that it was a UFO. But since we were so close we know that it was an IFO.”
Lmk if I made any mistakes
Need better close up on the photos since some have a glare.
This is pretty cool man. It would be neat to get this in front of a good researcher like Chris Ramsay or someone like that, who could dig into it a bit and tell you more about it.
I think the emblem says “European Space Research Organization (?)”
If that matters. Or I could be totally wrong too.
Possibly this [balloon flight](https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/1973/SXC-19731013.htm).
This is wild! Notice the globe (orb) shape. Hmmm makes me question things…