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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 10 Jan 59 | 2. LOCATION | Plymouth, North Carolina  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 1810 GMT 10/2310Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Reder ☐ Air-Intercept Reder  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian on "Moonwatch"  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | not given | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | one exploding  |
|  9. SOURCE | — | 10. COURSE | —  |
|  11. COMMENTS | Although duration omitted obj of the sighting and general description indicate conform to a "bolide" type meteor. Additional informa…

APPROX 010 (3) APPROX 10, APPROX 010 (4) FALLING STRAIGHT DOWNWARD
(5) FELL STRAIGHT DOWNWARD UNTIL IT DISAPPEARED BELOW THE TREE LINE
(6) APPROX 1 MINUTE C (1) GROUND VISUAL (2) N/A (3) N/A D (1)
102303Z JAN 59 (2) DUSK (3) 35 16 N/79 36W, ON N.C. HIGHWAY 211
MIDWAY BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF WEST END AND EAGLE SPRINGS F (1)

PAGE TWO RJESDF 30

, 38, ABERDEEN NC, TRUCK DRIVER, F-6
(2) N/A G (1) CLEAR (2) SURFACE: 330/08, 6,000: 330/30, 10,000: 330/45, 16,000 310/50, 20,000: 310/50, 30,000: 290/65, 50,000: 270/55, 80,000 N/A (3) UNLIMITED (4) SEVEN (7) MILES (5) NONE (6) NONE H NONE I NONE J NONE K…

13 JAN 71 1939
RieS
TELEPHONED
TO CAPT. BRT
NO. 71222
TIME 2333
Date 12 JAN 39
By: RieS

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PP RJEDSQ
DE RJESDF 30
P R 122225Z
FM COMDR 464TH TRPCARWGA
TO RJWFAL/COMDR ADC
RJEZFF/COMDR 85 AIR DIV
RJEDSQ/COMDR ATIC WPAFB
RJEZHQ/D/I HQ USAF
RJEZHQ/OFF INFO SVCS HQ USAF
INFO RJEDDX/COMDR TAC
RJWFAL/COMDR 1006 AISS
BT
UNCL FROM WDO-INT 1-226. ATTN: TIND LAFB: SUBJ: UFOB. A (1) ROUND
(2) APPROX 36 INCHES IN DIAMETER (3) GLOWING AS SOMETHING WHITE HOT
(4) ONE (5) N/A (6) NONE (7) SHOOTING YELLOW SPARKS FROM TAIL AT
INTERMITTENT TIMES, ABOUT SAME SIZE AS OBJECT (8) NONE (9) NONE…

107C
NORTH CAROLINA COMPANY
PLYMOUTH, N.C.
1-14-1959

U.S. Air Force
Operation "Moon Watch"
Washington D.C.

While on "Moon Watch" at Plymouth N.C. 1-10-59 at 6:10 pm or near that I saw a white ball coming out of the North by East heading south by west. When the ball was "a beam" of my location it burst into flame across the sky in many colors and hot particles began falling away. This same time some boys from Fort Jackson coming to Washington N.C. were on 301 Highway at the South Carolina-North Carolina line saw an object coming at them and burst into flame in front of their car. In their fri…

10 JAN 59

2 February 1959

Your letter of 14 January 1959 concerning unidentified flying object sighting at Plymouth, North Carolina, contained insufficient information to allow a valid conclusion.

In this regard, will you please complete the inclosed questionnaire and forward it direct to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Based upon the additional information you will be advised of their conclusions.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACKER
Major, USAF
Executive Officer
Public Information Division
Office of Information Services

Incl

Plymouth, North Car…