Project 10073 Record and Related Correspondence

This document collection details aerial phenomena sightings at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during April and May 1950. Professional observers from L[illegible]-Air, Inc., while tracking projects with Askania Phototheodolites, reported sightings of aerial objects, sometimes numbering up to eight at once. The Holloman AF Base Data Reduction Unit analyzed films from 27 April and 24 May 1950. While it was initially hoped that triangulation could be performed on the 24 May footage, the Data Reduction Unit concluded that the two stations were tracking different objects, rendering triangulation impossible. The file includes technical data regarding the MX 674 test, including station coordinates and frame rates. Additionally, the document contains an interview transcript with an American Airlines captain who reported a sighting of a brilliant bluish, cigar-shaped object on 29 May 1950 while flying a DC-6 near Mt. Vernon, Tennessee. The pilot described the object as having a slender hull and a bright light at the tail, which he observed passing between his aircraft and the moon. Despite the pilot's report and corroboration from his copilot, Washington radar failed to confirm the incident. The document also includes a brief, unrelated anecdote from Menzel's 'World of Flying Saucers' regarding a 1950 Denver incident that was later identified as soap bubbles. The overall conclusion for the Holloman sightings remains 'insufficient data' due to the inability to triangulate the objects.