Concord, VermontNovember 1962

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Summary

On November 29, 1962, in Concord, Vermont, a witness reported a bright star-like object in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for unidentified flying object reports.

The object was many times the size and brightness of a star, yellow-blue in color, with a long trail like a shooting star. It entered the atmosphere at about 160 degrees azimuth.

The Air Force evaluated the case as a meteor sighting.

Reported location

Concord, Vermont

Date of incident

November 1962

State / country

VT / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 47

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

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E ry PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ke

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| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

FE 8] Sos Salinon,

ae 0 Probably Balloon

= | 29 November 1962 Fal: vA DARA SSL "

| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ali A,

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— | Fry | | oe A SR A ER on Ca a EA nl Ox Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar 2 ball Cai

3 GMT 29/22067 0 AirVisual O Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft

~ | 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE XX Was Astronomical Meteor

P DO Yes 0 Probably Astronomical

3 it Civilian O Possibly Astronomical

Er LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE GF OMer.

Ee 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
| 0 Unknown

FE 10 seconds one South ET

© 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

~ | Starlike obj many times size 4 bright Meteor sighting.

~ | ness of star, yellow-blue color, with |

* | long trail like that of shooting star.

© | Entered atmosphere at 160 dgr azimuth %

* |20 dgr elev & burned out before

Bb | impact. Flight fm North to South in
BF |eliptic path. Clear weather,

E ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) ; |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28999851