Project 10073 Record — Newark Valley, New York, 7 November 1954

This document is a Project 10073 record detailing a sighting of unidentified aerial phenomena reported by a civilian couple in Newark Valley, New York, on November 7, 1954. The observers, a 73-year-old store owner and her husband, reported seeing two round, red, baseball-sized objects that appeared to be flares. The objects were observed twenty minutes apart. While the aircraft from which the flares were allegedly dropped was not visually identified, the witnesses reported hearing the sound of an aircraft. The report includes a teletype message from the 64th AC&W Squadron at Benton Air Force Station, Pennsylvania, addressed to the Air Defense Command, the 26th Air Division, and the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The military investigation concluded that the objects were flares. The report notes that all airfields in the vicinity were contacted, and none reported air traffic at the time of the sighting. Furthermore, personnel at the Broome County Airfield in Binghamton, New York, reported no activity resembling a flare, and the Ground Observer Corps (G.O.C.) posts in the area did not paint any aircraft in that vicinity on their radar. The reporting officer, 1st Lieutenant Charles M. Good Jr., included a note suggesting that the relative ages of the observers should be taken into consideration when evaluating the report.