PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD — St Cloud, Minnesota, 8 August 1954

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and an associated teletype message regarding an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sighting that occurred on August 8, 1954, in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The primary witness, a 23-year-old individual identified as JIG LOVE ABLE 5234, observed a single, round object described as being the size of a grapefruit. The object displayed flashing red, orange, blue, and white lights at one-minute intervals. The witness, using 7x50 binoculars, reported that the object exhibited jerky, stop-and-go movements while traveling north at an estimated altitude of 4,000 feet and a speed of 40 miles per hour. The total duration of the sighting was 46 minutes, with the object eventually disappearing twenty miles northeast of the initial sighting point. The report was forwarded by the 674th AC&W Squadron in Osceola, Wisconsin, to various military commands, including the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in accordance with Air Force Regulation 200-2. The official conclusion recorded on the project card is that the object was 'Possibly Balloon,' with the comments section explicitly noting it was a 'Balloon with lights.'