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South Parkersburg, West Virginia, February 1949 - Incident Number: 300

Date of account
1949-02
Location
South Parkersburg, West Virginia
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073RECORD 300 .DATE TIME GROUP .OCATION 5Feb,49 5/0830Z South Parkersburg,West Virginia 3.SOURCE 10.CONCLUSION Civilian Astro(Meteor) 4.NUMBEROF OBJECTS One 5.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION J!.BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 15-20Seconds Cbserver first noticed an intense white light,which was followed by a reddish yellow light.The object looked like 6.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Gdound visual the object had molten drops coaing from its rear. 7.COURSE Duration wasprobablyoverestimated. SN Maxwell AFB. ATTN: Director 8.PHOTOS No C4 ichives RETURN 9.PHYSICALEVIOENCE Studies OYs Alablma No FORM 0.3070) onofthia forn mayboused.

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