Project 10073 Record and Correspondence Regarding Flying Saucer Sightings

This document contains records from the Fifth Army regarding two separate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena in July 1950. The first report, dated 1 July 1950, involves a sighting in Chicago, Illinois, by a doctor who observed a round, soundless, intensely bright object traveling from north to south at a high altitude. The military evaluated this incident as a meteor, noting that the description of the object and the arc through which it passed were consistent with that conclusion. The second report, derived from a 6 July 1950 article in the Detroit News, details an account by a farmer named John Keller in Dowagiac, Michigan. Keller claimed that on 29 June 1950, he and his two sons witnessed a saucer-shaped object, approximately 25 feet in diameter and 12 to 15 feet thick, being launched from the belly of a low-flying Army C-54 aircraft. Keller described the object as having a chrome-colored top with a small dome and a dull grey bottom. He stated that the object wobbled before accelerating at a terrific speed toward the south, easily outdistancing the C-54. The document includes a formal memorandum from the Headquarters Fifth Army to the Commanding General at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, referencing previous Department of the Army instructions regarding unconventional aircraft. The military command explicitly stated that no further investigation was contemplated for the Chicago sighting.