Project 10073 Record Card — Newcastle, Indiana, December 1952

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype communications regarding a sighting reported on December 17, 1952, in Newcastle, Indiana. Members of the Ground Observer's Corps (GOC) reported observing an object between 2120 and 2122 CST. The reports contain conflicting descriptions of the object; one entry describes a 'long narrow silver object with a black trail' that traveled at a high rate of speed and disappeared in a circular movement, while another teletype entry describes a 'round and flat' object that was 'orange and yellow' in color, moving from east to south with no trail or exhaust. Both reports agree that the object was observed visually from the surface, that the weather was clear, and that there was no sound associated with the object. The official evaluation by the Air Technical Intelligence Center concluded that the information provided was too sketchy and incomplete to attempt any meaningful conclusion or interpretation of the event. The documentation includes internal military teletype communications between the 782nd AC&W Squadron at Rockville, Indiana, and various intelligence headquarters, including the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB. The records are marked as unclassified and were later downgraded under DOD Directive 5200.10.