Montpelier, VermontMarch 1950

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Summary

On March 22, 1950, around 1 p.m., a civilian restaurant operator near Montpelier, Vermont, reported two objects. He said he first saw an aircraft at high altitude leaving three or four vapor trails, which he thought was a B-36 type plane. He then saw two silver objects, about the size of bowling balls, that appeared to fly in formation with the aircraft. He said the objects seemed to break up cirrus clouds they passed through. They were white and on a heading of 330 degrees. No speed was given, and no photographs were made. There was no sound or exhaust trail.

The report came through a military flight service center. Officials noted that a modified B-29 aircraft was on a test flight at about 25,000 feet in that area at the time. The Air Force record (Project 10073, its official file for unidentified flying object reports) concluded the objects were probably reflections from that aircraft, since they were small and tied to the plane in the area.

Reported location

Montpelier, Vermont

Date of incident

March 1950

State / country

VT / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

Original case file scans

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Eh PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE « TIME GROUP 2. LO TION |
22 March 50 22/1300Z Montpelier, Vermont | |
3. SOURCE 10, CONCLUSION
) Civilian % Other (Reflection)
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Sinco objocts emall and associated with the A/C in the areca, ib |
™wo : is probable that thoy were rofloctions from this a/ce
S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION (11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Not Reported "Two objects size of bowling balls breaking up Cirrus clouds
TT through which they were passing, Color of objocte white.
Heading 330 degroes. Cosorved hish cltitude a/¢ with 3«l contrails |
Ground-Visual in this a/c wake, Thcught to be a B=36 type by Observer, Thoch |
: 7. COURSE ‘objects flying in formatica with the A/C, :
A B~29 was in the area at the time. This is probably the B-36
Not Reported type that the witness reported,
8. PHOTOS
0 Yes :
(ONe
9, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
0 Yes » : ’
No
FORM
FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used.
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