Project 10073 Record Card and Spot Intelligence Report — Lihue, Kauai, 18 January 1951

This document consists of a Project 10073 Record Card and a subsequent Spot Intelligence Report regarding an Unconventional Aircraft sighting in Lihue, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, on 18 January 1951. At approximately 1830 hours, a group of local officials, including the County Chairman, a Supervisor, the County Engineer, and a Police Officer, observed a silvery, disc-shaped object hovering in the sky. The witnesses reported that visibility was excellent and the object appeared against the blue sky. One witness attempted to retrieve a telescope to observe the object more closely, but by the time they returned, the object had begun moving and was lost in a cloud formation. The observers concluded that the object appeared to be controlled, though they could not determine its propulsion method. The report notes that this was the third such sighting over Kauai since Christmas. The official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card is that there was insufficient data for evaluation, with a suggestion that the object might have been a balloon. The intelligence report was processed through the Military Air Transport Service and forwarded to the Director of Special Investigations at Headquarters, United States Air Force, and subsequently to the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.