Project 10073 Record Card — Homewood, Illinois, 28 April 1952

On April 28, 1952, at approximately 1700 hours, two witnesses in Homewood, Illinois, observed an unidentified object in the sky. The witnesses, identified as a local housewife and Mrs. Walter Westerman, reported the sighting to Special Agent Joel L. Cerr of the Fifth Army Regional Office on April 29, 1952. According to the report, the object was described as white in color and parachute-shaped. It was observed circling a large aircraft that was traveling in a southeast direction. The witnesses noted that the object appeared to be at the same altitude as the aircraft. The total duration of the observation was approximately three minutes, after which the object disappeared from view. The Fifth Army Headquarters, in a memorandum dated May 2, 1952, forwarded this summary of information to the A-2 office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The memorandum explicitly stated that the Fifth Army did not intend to conduct any further investigation into the matter. The documentation includes a Project 10073 record card, which categorizes the report as a ground-visual observation by a civilian source. The report remains unclassified, with standard downgrading instructions applied.