THE BARIUM AND COPPER OXIDE LAUNCH: SEPT. 24, 1966

 On September 24, 1966, from the Wallup Island, Virginia launch site, at 043 EST (5:13 am) a Javelin rocket was launched with a payload of barium and copper oxide. This was then ejected at 319 and 570 statute miles.  The dispersal created a cloud two times the size of the moon and most witnesses reported a) a cloud of first green tinged with red and blue, b) others saw a bright blue comet coming straight toward them. This object expanded to a size 1 1/4 miles and 100 feet deep that moved eastward in a ball shape. It gradually disappeared from view. but it left a tail or streak.

There were numerous visuals by ground and air September 24, at 0913z.

The cloud that resulted generated reports from Alabama, Louisiana, Ohio and Arkansas. The Wallop Island site was located on the Atlantic coast of Virginia but the drift of the "cloud" was to the east. In 2017, a similar test was conducted to "stain" the atmosphere.  (Project Blue Book, 1966-09-6978900, File 8295987, with two photos).