3 Mi W of St. Albans, West VirginiaMarch 1961

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Summary

On March 2, 1961, around 7:15 p.m. local time, a civilian about three miles west of St. Albans, West Virginia, reported a blue white, oblong object. It was seen for about 15 seconds and moved from south to north.

The object was about 100 feet in length and appeared about two miles above sea level. It kept its position in the sky about two miles up as it passed overhead, then faded into the north.

The Air Force card states the object was probably a meteor passing through the earth's atmosphere and in the process of burning up. This card is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official file for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

3 Mi W of St. Albans, West Virginia

Date of incident

March 1961

State / country

WV / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 41

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 O Was Balloon
2 Mar 61 3 mi W of St. Albans, West Virgin f Grebesly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Belloon
Lokal WE SUSAN Ae RIO &X Ground- Visual O Ground-Roder 5 Brobaty Taveras
GMT 0300152 O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar OD Possibly Aireroft
5. ‘PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was Astronomical
OQ Yes BE Probably Astronomical
& No Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3 NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE RE RS |
: ; O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
O Unknown
dl5 sec 1 S-N
10. BRIEF Sa OF SIGHTING Blue-white, oblong objt ['): COMMENTS it yas probably a meteor
aprox 100 in length. Aprox 2 mi above sea passing through earth's atmosphere, |
level, It maintained position in sky 2 mi as |and in process of burning up.
it passed overhead. Faded into N.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28991674