Project 10073 Record Card — Chicago, Illinois, 26 April 1951

This document file contains a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding a civilian sighting of an unidentified object in Chicago, Illinois, on April 26, 1951. The witness reported observing a bright silver object with blue and black trim at approximately 5:25 P.M. near the lakefront at Cermak Road. The witness described the object as having a very short wing spread and remaining nearly stationary at an altitude of 100 feet for about 30 seconds before moving northward until it was out of sight. The witness was driving south on Chase and 23rd Street at the time of the observation. The report was initially sent to the Headquarters Fifth Army in Chicago. On May 1, 1951, Colonel Innes Randolph of the Fifth Army forwarded the letter to the A-2 office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, noting that the Fifth Army did not intend to conduct an investigation. Subsequently, on May 7, 1951, Colonel Bryan L. Davis of the Air Materiel Command acknowledged receipt of the witness's letter and informed them that it would be forwarded to the office interested in such matters. The official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card is that the object was evaluated as an aircraft.