North Concord AFS, VermontAugust 1960

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Summary

On August 4, 1960, military witnesses at North Concord Air Force Station, Vermont saw an object at about 6:12 a.m. local time, at dawn. The sighting lasted about one minute. The object was circular and about the size of a basketball held at arm's length. It had a blue tip with a white trail about the size of a pencil. The object stayed at the same point in the sky, then suddenly diminished and vanished. There was no sound. The sky was clear. The reporting radar officer thought it might be a man-made object with a contrail. The Air Force concluded the sighting was astronomical, probably a meteor, and linked it to another sighting at the same time from Maine.

Reported location

North Concord AFS, Vermont

Date of incident

August 1960

State / country

VT / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 39

Original case file scans

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1  emrr— | PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

| 1. DAT |2 Location 12. CONCLUSIONS
] ) 5 . 1660 orth C ¢ AFS. Vermont ; O Was Balloon

+ August, 1° orth Concor: Al sy vermont O Probably Balloon

| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4& TYPE OF OBSERVATION . Tovey wenem

1 3 y O Wes Aircrafe

: Leet) & Ground- Vi suel O Ground-Rador Q Probably Aircraft

i 17

3 GMT C./c 9212 . — 0 Air Visval O Air-Intercept Radar | DO Possibly Aircraft

5. PHOTOS JOURCE Of Was Astronomical leteor |
: 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical |
1 XS Ne tilitary O Possibly Astronomical

i 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE |
3 OQ Insufficient Data for Evaluation

! Jna minute one Not Siven 0 Unknown

4 - |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS
ircular oblast with w-lte tail an tlue tin Probably a mataar with the iratsien
1 rill &tont tHe size 3° Perel! 1% arm's overastimited, Case cor elatad wits |
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988089