Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Project 10073 Record Card and Spot Intelligence Report — 7 November 1951
AI-Generated Summary
A 1951 report details a police officer's sighting of an object in San Antonio, which was officially identified as a meteor. The document also includes a separate 1952 report of two unidentified objects exhibiting complex flight patterns.
This document contains a series of reports regarding an aerial phenomenon observed on 7 November 1951. The primary incident involved a sighting by a San Antonio Police Department officer at 0715 hours. The witness reported seeing an unknown object traveling from west to east at a tremendous speed. The witness noted that the object reflected light, similar to the sun's rays hitting an aircraft, and appeared to be in controlled flight, maintaining a level course. The witness explicitly stated there was no trail of fire and no sound. The report was processed by the 10th District Office of Special Investigations and forwarded to the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Official evaluations, including those by Dr. LaPaz of New Mexico University, concluded that the object was a meteor. This conclusion was supported by widespread reports of a meteor across Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma on the same morning. The document also includes a separate, unrelated sighting report from 11 November 1952, describing two fuzzy, cloud-like objects observed at Durango, Texas, which exhibited complex rotational and tilting behaviors over several minutes.
Object traveling at a tremendous speed (Speed of a shooting star). Object went out of sight over horizon. Object appeared to be traveling with the contour of the earth. No trail or fire.
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Official Assessment
Evaluated as Meteor by Dr. LaPaz.
The object was initially reported as a strange object by a police officer, but was later attributed to a meteor sighting that occurred across several states.
Witnesses
- [illegible]San Antonio Police Department
Key Persons
- Dr. LaPazAuthority on meteors at New Mexico University
- Oscar E. MonnigFort Worth astronomer