Project 10073 Record Card: Sighting in Las Vegas, Nevada, 10 January 1954

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated military communications regarding a sighting on January 10, 1954, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The witness, a 32-year-old teacher and former Air Force pilot with eleven years of service, reported observing a white, spherical object approximately 12 feet in diameter. The object was sighted while the witness was tending to livestock. The witness reported that the object appeared stationary at an elevation of 80 degrees and an azimuth of 340 degrees. The observation lasted for approximately 13 minutes. The military investigation, conducted by an acting group intelligence officer, determined that the object was a weather balloon. Records indicated that a weather balloon had been released from Nellis Air Force Base at 0705Z, which would have placed it over the observer's location at the time of the sighting. The report notes that there were no negative trails or sounds associated with the object, and no unidentified aircraft were reported in the area by the office. The document also includes a newspaper clipping from January 13, 1954, regarding a separate report of a 'fiery object' seen over New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, which was tentatively identified by astronomers as a meteor.