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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  22 March 49 16/0200Z | Morgantown, West Virginia  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | Astro (METEOR)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  One | Observer sighted a round, flat object resembling the cover of a garbage can. The object was going in a straight path at a very high rate of speed. It was yellow in color going to the SW. The object sounded like a sky rocket. It left a yellow, tapering trail.  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |   |
|  2 or 3 seconds |   |
|  6. TYPE OF …

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AT MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA

1. On 3 May 1949, [redacted], Morgantown, W. Va., was interviewed and stated in substances that at approximately 2100 to 2130 hours on 15 March 1949, he was in his back yard looking at the sky checking weather conditions as was his nightly habit. He was standing approximately half way between his garage and the rear door of his house looking toward the north, when he observed a single round flat object resembling the cover of a garbage can or a barrel top northeast of Morgantown and moving across the sky toward Fairmont, W. V…