Andover, MassachusettsAugust 1960

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On August 26, 1960, a civilian, his wife, and three children saw an object from their yard in Andover, Massachusetts, at about 7:30 p.m., during sunset. The sighting lasted about three minutes. The object was silver, flat, and square, with a short cigar-shaped nose. It had a dome or half globe on the bottom that glowed orange or orange-yellow. It was about the size of a pursuit type plane and moved from east to west at about 300 miles per hour. It did not leave a trail or make a sound. It descended and then went out of sight behind trees. The witnesses lived near Logan Airport. The Air Force concluded the sighting was probably one of the Air National Guard aircraft based at Logan, which had underslung tanks painted with orange Day-Glo.

Reported location

Andover, Massachusetts

Date of incident

August 1960

State / country

MA / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 39

Original case file scans

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ;

1 (1. pate 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

A | nA A a A x NY a 0 Was Bolloon

| 26 Aug 60 Andover, Massachusetts S Probably Bellon

: | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION i TOR. we

E Loeel i RE iii X Ground. Visval O Ground-Radar QO  Wos Aircraft

ie 05/2 = : { Probably Aircraft

b sub COISRIRE OC Air=Yisvel DO Air-Intercop? Rader O Possibly Aireroft

BE | > PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was Astronomicol

a | Q Yes Ad 0 Probably Astronomicol

8 oT Ne Civilian : O Possibly Astronomicol

4 | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3. NUMBER OF DBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other ete
3 | 0 Insufficient Dots for Evaluation
- 3 min one W 0 Unknown

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fi 10 BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
| | Silver, flat and squares object with a snort The witnesses live close to an airport |
4 cizar chaped nose 2nd a dome or "half globe’ where an AG organization has some a/o
Be | cn she bottom of the fuselage which glowed with underslung tanks painted with
fF | “ith an orange or crange-yellow color, and was | orange day-glo. It 1s probable ore of
: | aprox the size of a "sursuit type" plane. Speed these planes was the cause for this sighing.
§ | was aprox 300 mph.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988511