PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
1 Jul 60 Oak Hill, West Virginia D Probety Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Bellcon
| XY Wos Aircraft
Local {X Ground- Vi sual © Ground-Redor QO Probably Aircraft
GMT. 02/0200Z D Air Visual OD Air-intercept Redar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS OURS O Was Astronomical
pes O Yes O Probably Astronomical
Cl Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 7
0 Insufficient Date for Evaluation
3-5 min three E-W QO Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Three round objects, size of pea in "V" forma-
tion. Amber color. Traveling on a straight
ourse and disapreared over the horizon.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)

| These objects were determined to be a/c
by investigating committee.

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bc QQ (aie unknown) (Occupation - salesiian)
wnipple, West Vir inia

Master (ace - approsimetely 10 yeers) Uccupation - —~tudeut
Oak dill, W.Va.

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(1) Cloudy

(2) Wot avai lable
(3) «igh

(4) Good

(5) Scatered
(6) Had rained approximately 2 hours prior to sixhting.
(7) moderate

h. none.
ie none.
j- Unknown.

k. Fosition Title: Senior virector, Operations Section - Due to description
of flignt path, icrmation and overell a4, peerance of objects, it is determined
to be a flight of three (3) aircraft «ut nigh altitude.

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Mysterious Objects
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clouds moving. When I looked a
little closer, I could see that they
|were not stars, but they were
i@ little larger. They were spread
out in a V-formation.. _.

“They were moving pretty fast.
They all moved at the same speed
and stayed in the same formation
until they were out of sight. We
watched them until théy’ moved
out of sight.”

Bill Napier of Whipple, who was
at the Ellison home, also saw
them and husband George got

cutside in time to witness the ob-
jects before they faded away.

George Ellison called the Tri-
buné, afd séveral employees went
outside to look for “satellites.”
However, our attention was at-
tracted to something different—
probably a star. We thought, how-
ever, at first that the object was
moving and had a green tinge to
it.

After checking with Ellison
again over the telephone we
learned that it took approximately
five minutes for the three “‘ob-
jects” to pass across the horizon.

Ellison said they were brighter
than stars.

About 7:04 p.m. a 72-foot Scout
rocket had veered off its path
high above the Atlantic Coast
Friday night, two minutes after
‘launching and was destroyed.

The Scout rocket attained an
altitude of 860 miles and landed
in the Atlantic 1,500 miles off the
Virginia coast.

Earlier Friday at Cape _Cana-
veral, Fla., the first opérational
Phototype of the intercontinental
range Titan missile veered sharply
out of control and had to be de-
Stroyed about 300 feet abdve its
launching pad. It is ‘not known
what time this occurred, -

The Ellison’s actually dis-
covered these objects about 8:55
\P.m. We intend to send this ar-
(ticle to the Air Force for their

Only a few weeks ago Ivan Wil-

were
‘jects which passed over Oak Hill|objects passing across the sky.
‘Friday night?

cox and his brother at Mullens
spotted an extremely strange ob-
ject in the sky. It was purple in
appearance and was only seen for |.
a few seconds. The same descrip-
tion. was reported to’ proper |.
authorities by a man a number
of miles away in West Vitginia.
The Air Force investigated the

toward the skies
Earlier the city of Oak Hill was
shaken by a low-flying jet which
zoomed overhead as Oak Hill res-
idents were eating dinner.

The sky truly is a mystery.
Those folks from Mars are going
t> come down here one of these
days—you just wait and see,

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Friday evening.

,

Mysterious Objects Seen

In West. Vir

a a > a
inia's Skies
mysterious Saleen, oe be Grlaentitiea

Mrs. Ellison describes the hap-

after 8:30 p.m. excite-|penings like this:

ons wah in the air at the George| ‘“‘The children saw og’ eo
Ellison residence on Sunnyside; called me, and I a “1
Drive, Oak Hill. It was there that| about the situation. a oe
Mrs. Ellison, her children, Tim) first they were stars ns

and Rose, and her nephew, Jimmy (Continued on page

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 12 July 1960

Dear ifr. Holliday:

This is to acknowledge and thank you for your letter

of 5 July together with clippings from the Fayette Tribune |
concerning unidentified flying objects seen near Oak Hill r

West Virginia on 1 July 1300.

I have forwarded this information on to the Acrospace

Technical Intelligence Centex Yor their possitic use.

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Thank you very much for your interest in this matter.

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sincersly,

WREDCE J. TACKER
Lt. Colonel, JSAP
Public Informatioz Di-rision

Office of Iuformatisn:
Mr. Robert K. Holliday
Publisher
The Fayette Tribunc, Inc.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
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Che Hayette Tritune, Ince.

THE COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER

OAK HILL, WEST VIRGINIA se oe
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Mr. Lawrence J. Tacker Jor * >
Lt. Colonel, USAF ” / ee
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Department of Air Force Ae ¢
Washington, D. C,

Dear Mr. Tacker:

This is to acknowledge and thank you for your
letter of July 12 concerning unidentified flying
objects seen in this area on July l,

You stated in your letter the information sent
to you, along with the clippings, were forwarded to

the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center for their
possible use,

Several individuals in the Oak Hill vicinity
have inquired about the objects, The reply you gave
uS is of no help in answering their inquiries,

we would like any information concerning what

we saw if it is possible for you to release such
news.

Some questions we are being asked are: What
were they? Will there be any more? If so when?

Any news you might provide for us would greatly
be appreciated,

Sincerely yours,

THE FAYETTE TRIBUNE

Ke kat b’ {sola My

Robert K, Holliday r
Publisher

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COUNTRY OF ACTIVITY REPORTING REPORT WO.
United atutes

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

COUNTRY OR AREA REPORT CONCERNS DATE OF INFORMATION
Ozk dill (Peyette Co), we Vee 1 July 1760
ACTIVITY SUBMITTING REPORT ; "TATE OF COLLECTION
7234 aM Syuadron, vutarie als i

vasrleston, west Virginia el July ly6u
PREPARING INDIVIDUAL
Jonnson, Joan F., ve, tain, US

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REFERENCES (BAIR Subject, previous reports, etc., as applicable)
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SuBJECT (Descriptive title. Use individual reports for sevarate subjects) — Yr a
UFO, Sighting or a UFO over Vek Hill, we-t Virginia

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The following rezort is submitted in acccrdance with arR 200-2, dtd 14 Sep 57.
Format is in accordance with aFR 200-2, pcerauwraph 15.

ae Description of Object:

(1) Hound
(2) Fea
(3) a«mber

(4) Three (3)
(5) "V®* Formation
(6) None
(7) ixone
(8) wcne
(3) None
be Wescriztion or vourse OF Ubjscts:
(1, Just lookin, around
\2) wirecti; over head
(3) ish - Viseppescred into sj,uce
(i) moving frou bast to wert on straigat course
(5) Disa, peered over the norizen.
(6) 3-5 minutes
Ce henner of Observation:
(1) Ground-visuel
(2) So optical aids

(3) b/a
Gd Time and bate of Sichting:
_Neone eincis «= 2008, 2 July 1360

(2) Wight

e. Location of observer: at Ho..€ - fia, Vak dill, W.Va.

f. Identifyin, inforuiation on observ-rs:

vXSe (sze unknown) (Occupetion - Housewife)
Oak Hill, W.Va.

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