Project 10073 Record — Morgantown, West Virginia, 7 March 1967

This document contains a series of records and a memorandum for the record regarding a cluster of unidentified aerial phenomena sightings reported in Morgantown, West Virginia, on March 7, 1967. The primary witness, an FAA employee, reported observing an orange object for 10-15 seconds. Subsequent notes indicate that the FAA flight service station in Morgantown received multiple calls from citizens reporting orange objects in the sky throughout the night. At 2142 hours, six people in the airport tower sighted the object, which was also observed by an off-duty police officer and his neighbors. Reports described the objects as orange and moving from west to east. One report noted a very low-altitude flight where an object was observed that looked like an elongated balloon. A final memorandum dated April 6, 1967, concludes that the sightings were caused by hot air balloons released by students in the area. One of these balloons reportedly landed in a residential area and was recovered by the local police department.