Other over Chariton, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
" Flying Wing Before It's Time "
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1953-04-07 → 1953-04-24
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April 27, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Chariton, IA
Looking to the SE we could see a line of white lights, moving across the night sky in single file in a very straight line. They were moving from the NW to the SE. When we first saw them I started counting and got up to 28, but there were more coming and we had missed some of them. There was no sound and they were about the brightness of a very bright star. They seemed to be in linear groups of 2 and 3. Observers were a science teacher and a science professional with advanced degrees.
October 8, 2014 · 5:21 AM · CIGAR
Chariton, IA
I witnessed an event, myself, two moving lights, becoming three, moving from the west heading southeast. It was at 5:21 am 10/8/2014, I was outside my second floor apartment on the flat roof in back of the building. The event lasted 7-8 seconds. I had been awake since 4 am. I was watching the eclipse. It was dark out. The two lights were white-ish blue-ish, moving fast from my right to my left, above the rooftop of the building south of mine. I thought it was strange, so since I had my binoculars (eclipse) I put them to my eyes and what I saw was like nothing else. I first noticed there were now three lights, in between and in the back of a cigar shaped object. It was moving fast and quiet. That lasted only two seconds, then it was gone. As I lowered my binoculars it was out of sight.
July 10, 1969 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Chariton, IA
It was disk shaped and brilliant white on the bottom,flew at a high rate of speed and changed direction at 90 degree turns.