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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 1 Jul 59 | 2. LOCATION | New Church, Va  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 850 PM - 930 PM GMT 02/0130Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | not given | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | varied  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |   | Circular lights w/edges fuzzy or blurred No impression of solidity. Followed a crescent pattern w/tips pointing up. Speed varied but never stopped. Lights appeared to cha…

July 3, 1959

U E O

eastern shore broadcasting company
WDVM
POCOMOKE CITY, MD.

post office box 210
"Radio For All the Eastern Shore"
phone 937

The U.S. Air Force
Pentagon
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am not sure to whom I should address this letter, or, in fact, whether I should even send it. I am embarrassed by the probability that the phenomenon I report is already known to you, and that it can more than likely be readily explained.

At any rate, I write to report the observation at length of strange lights in the sky over the New Church, Virginia area of the Delmarva Peninsula on the …

Location:

Lights seen from New Church, Virginia, facing West. Observer extremely reluctant to estimate height due to having no experience in such or related matters. Says could be any height from a few hundred feet on up. But does say that some of neighbors who saw lights chased them in automobiles which indicates some of the observers thought them to be quite low. Crescent-shaped pattern of light movement ran North-South at right-angles to observer, tips of crescent pointing up.

OTHER KNOWN OBSERVERS:

Mr. and Mrs. [redacted], New Church
Mrs. [redacted], New Church
Mr. [redacted], New Churc…

8:50 PM, EST to apprx. 9:30 PM ... Wednesday, July 1, 1959

Weather Conditions: hot, humid, somewhat hazy, few if any stars, brisk breeze, not too dark.

General appearance of lights or objects: definitely circular in appearance, although during their fastest movement, they appeared to have a tail. Observer readily admits, however, that this could easily be due to a blurring effect caused by rapid acceleration and greater speed.

Color: off-white as, perhaps, the moon in half-stage as seen behind thin, hazy clouds. No specific color tone, but definitely not snow-white. Edges not clearly define…

1 JULY 59
SAFIS-3/Maj Takcer/vpb:4966/13 July 1959
02/0230Z

13 July 1959

Dear Mr.

This is to acknowledge and thank you for your letter of 3 July 1959 concerning an unidentified flying object sighted over New Church, Virginia, on Wednesday 1 July 1959.

In view of the number of observers, we would like additional information concerning this sighting. Therefore, I am inclosing three (3) Air Force questionnaires, which should be filled out and signed by at least three (3) of the other known observers listed in your letter.

Please send the completed questionnaires direct to Air Technical Intel…