Incident #66 Sighting Report — Silver Springs, Ohio, 7 August 1947

This document contains the official report and evaluation of Incident #66, which occurred on August 7, 1947, near Silver Springs, Ohio. The witness, an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel affiliated with the Scientific Branch Research Group, reported observing a single object at approximately 2100 EST. The object was described as a long, straight, narrow flame with a bright orange glow, similar in appearance to a tracer bullet. The object was observed for a duration of three to four seconds, moving in a horizontal flight path from North to South at a low altitude. The report includes a formal evaluation by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), which concludes that the object was a bright meteor. The evaluators noted that while meteors rarely appear to travel in an 'absolutely horizontal' path, the observer's surprise and the brevity of the sighting likely contributed to this perception and an overestimation of the duration. The file also includes a separate, unrelated letter dated December 8, 1966, from a former pilot in St. Louis, Missouri, discussing his own observations of U.F.O.s, which appears to have been included in the same file folder. The document concludes that there is no evidence to suggest the object was anything other than a meteor.