ORANGEBURG, S.C., March 1950March 1950

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Summary

On March 9, 1950, many people in Orangeburg, South Carolina, reported a disk that hovered over the city for about 15 minutes, then left a vapor trail and disappeared. Witnesses included staff members of a local newspaper. They said the object was about the size and color of a new moon, only brighter. One witness said it appeared to turn slowly in the air. The report reached the Air Force through Army channels with attached newspaper clippings.

The same clippings described other sightings the same week in Columbia, South Carolina, and Florence, where people reported a bright, silvery object crossing the sky around 6:30 p.m. with a vapor trail. An Army agent who watched the Columbia object wrote that it appeared to be a very high flying aircraft heading west, leaving a vapor trail that split into two as the wind spread it. He concluded it was nothing but the regular vapor trail of a high flying plane.

The file is built from newspaper articles and one agent's eyewitness account.

Reported location

ORANGEBURG, S.C., March 1950

Date of incident

March 1950

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

Original case file scans

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