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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 2D MARCH 1952 | LOCATION | CENTRVILLE, QUEEN AHHES COUNTY, MD. | SOURCE | CIVILIAN (BUSINESS MAN)  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  4. TIME | Local 2242 8 0342 | 5. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | OVER | 6. SHAPE | SAUCER SHAPED LIGHT  |
|  7. COLOR | ORANGE - YELLOW | 8. COURSE | E | 9. ALTITUDE | 10. ANGULAR VELOCITY ☐ per second  |
|  11. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 12. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | GROUND VISUAL | 13. LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED APPROX. 30 SECONDS | 14. MAKEUVERS HORIZONTAL PLANE, TOO VERTICAL JUMPS  |
|  16. CONCLUSIONS | No Conclusion UNKNOWN |   |   …

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# THE SIGHTING OF A FLYING SAUCER-TYPE OBJECT

Place Observed: Centelleville, Queen Anne's County, Md.
Date and Time: March 20, 1952 - 10:42 p. m.
Length of Time Object was in Sighted: Approximately 30 seconds

## DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT:

An orange-yellow saucer shaped light, two or three times the size of the average wing light on a airplane. It was travelling about halfway between the horizon and zenith from the southwest to southeast at a very fast rate of speed, and twice it jumped vertically at an extremely fast speed and continued on at the higher level. Its upwa…

On 1 May 1952 Lt. F.J. Bippell
interviewed Mr. [redacted] Three possibilities exist.
a. aircraft
b. meters
c. unknown

A. If it were on jet aircraft leaving 90°
in 30 seconds or 980 mph it would have been about 2 miles
or 10,500' away from the source. At 10,000' the
source would have heard the room, he reported no
sound.

If the object were 4 miles away, the distance
at which the sound at an aircraft may not be
heard under certain conditions the speed would have
had to be 2 times 980 or 960 mph which
is higher than any Roman AK speed, i.e. AK, that would
be over the Washington area at night.

…

Report of Sighting

Mr. [redacted] of [redacted], Washington, D.C., [redacted]. The sighting took place at Centerville, Queen Anne's County, Md., on 20 March 1952 at 2242.

The object was described as a dull, orange-yellow, saucer-shaped light resembling an old-fashioned light bulb. The size of the light was twice to three times that of an ordinary a/c wing light.

The object was traveling very fast and seemed about five miles away from the observer halfway between the horizon and zenith.

The only maneuver performed by the object was twice jumping vertically a distance equal to what looked li…