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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE 14 October 1957 | 2. LOCATION Fairmont, West Virginia | 12. CONCLUSIONS ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astrochemical ☐ Possibly Astronomical ☐ Other ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1420 GMT 14/1920Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION XX Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar |   |
|  5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE Civilian |   |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION not reported | 8…

LAWLER
PHONE 1039

REALTOR ROTAND.
FAIRMONT, W. VA.

Mail N. McCleary
Secretary Defense
Washington, D.C.

1. Sphere,
2. Very slow speech, running
3. Daytime, sunlight
Possibly a balloon limited info.

On Monday October 14th at 2:20 P.M. after working in my garden and helping ours. Adjusting her flower beds for winter, I was tired and stretched out in my reclining sewer chair looking eastward and saw an unusual object coming from the Southeast. I called Mrs. [redacted] and pointed it out to her and she saw it flanky. After it passed over we both discovered it was revolving latterly very slow. T…

14 OCT 57
10/1920 Z
WA: LAWLER
IV Poss. Bellows (Cumulated info)
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OFFICIAL FILE COPY
OFFICE OF RECORD
4E4/T/Sgt J. Bolieu/wm
69216
7 NOV 1957

AFOIN-424
Mr. W
AFOIN-4X2
Livermore, West Virginia
Dear Mr.
Your letter of 19 October 1957 addressed to the Secretary of Defense has been forwarded to the Air Technical Intelligence Center for reply.
Positive identification of your sighting has not been made as yet; however, the information will be used in our continuing analysis.
Sincerely,
WALLACE W. ELWOOD
Captain, USAF
Assistant Adjutant

AFOIN-4X3
AFOIN-4X4
AFOIN-4X5
AFOIN-4X6

AFOIN-4B
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