Project 10073 Record Card — Lowell, Massachusetts, October 14, 1951

This document contains records related to a UFO sighting reported in Lowell, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1951. The primary evidence consists of a Project 10073 record card, a letter from the witnesses, and a formal response from the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC). The witnesses, Marilyn Joan Quinlan and Judy Dwyer, were playing outside when they observed two glittering objects. They attempted to alert Judy's father, John D. Dwyer, but the objects had disappeared by the time he arrived. The children, having read about 'flying saucers' in a magazine called 'Open Road,' wrote to the authorities to report the incident and express their hope that they were not being dismissed as imaginative. The ATIC responded to the letter, acknowledging receipt of the information and stating that it had been included in their study of aerial phenomena. The official record card for the incident notes that the objects were 'glittering' and that the investigation resulted in no findings, concluding that the event likely involved aircraft or other conventional objects, but that there was insufficient data to form a definitive conclusion. The document also includes an extract from a status report and a summary table listing various sightings, confirming the Lowell incident's inclusion in the project's data set.