Bright object observed over Wurtland on the Ohio River, Kentucky (1962)

Project Blue Book Case #7851. On April 4, 1962, witnesses in Wurtland, Kentucky — a small community on the Ohio River in Greenup County — observed a bright object. Wurtland sits in the narrow river valley of northeastern Kentucky, with the Appalachian foothills rising to the south. The Ohio River corridor provided a natural flight path for commercial and military aviation. The case was classified "Unknown."