PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD — Inglis, Florida, August-September 1954

This document is a Project 10073 record card detailing a series of sightings that occurred in Inglis, Florida, between August and September 1954. The primary report concerns a sighting on September 5, 1954, at 0525Z. The witness, an employee of the Florida Power plant, described observing a bright red light, approximately the size of a man's head, hovering for 15 minutes. The witness noted that the object had been observed several times over the preceding three or four weeks, typically between the hours of 3:00 AM and 6:00 AM. The observer was located at ground level at the Florida Power plant, and the object was sighted approximately 15 miles south-west of the plant near the mouth of the river. Other witnesses from Crystal River and Dunnellon, also employees of Florida Power, were mentioned in the report. The weather conditions at the time were described as calm and slightly foggy. There was no physical evidence, no photographs, and no radar contact reported. The official conclusion reached by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) was that the object was the planet Mars. The document includes internal military communications routing the report through various Air Force and Coast Guard channels, and a note indicating that a separate case file for an August 2, 1954, incident in Korea was missing.