Project 10073 Record Card — Lafayette, Ind, 19 April 50

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and supporting materials regarding a UFO sighting that occurred on April 23, 1950, near Red Bud, Illinois. The primary witness, Dean Morgan, a part-time photographer, reported observing a large, metallic, disc-shaped object hovering approximately twenty feet above him. He described the object as having a reddish top and a dome, and noted that it departed at high speed without sound or exhaust. Morgan captured a photograph of the object, which he initially kept private due to fear of ridicule. The document includes accounts from other witnesses, including a newsboy named Donald Gene and a pastor named Reverend Don Holt, who both reported seeing an object hovering and then streaking away near Carbondale, Illinois, on the same day. The ATIC record card notes that the source is an ex-bomber pilot with a questionable discharge from the Air Force, explicitly questioning his mental stability. Additionally, the document includes a brief mention of a separate 1950 sighting in the Balearic Islands, Spain, where a newsreel cameraman named Enrique Hausemann Muller reportedly photographed a pinwheel-shaped object. The narrative reflects the photographer's struggle to have his account and photograph accepted, noting that his findings were rejected by popular magazines until he discovered 'Flying Saucers' magazine in 1957. The document serves as a compilation of these accounts and photographic claims, framed within the context of military intelligence assessment.