Project 10073 Record Card — Sighting near Cochise, New Mexico, 1 February 1955

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype reports detailing an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) sighting that occurred on February 1, 1955, near Cochise, New Mexico. The sighting was reported by military student pilots, including a pilot identified as Richard B. [illegible] and a student pilot named Frederick G. Miller. According to the report, the witnesses observed a spherical, red and white, very bright object that hovered off the left wing of their aircraft for approximately five minutes. Following this period of hovering, the object began a steady climb parallel to the course of the aircraft at an extremely high speed, disappearing from view within three minutes. The object was estimated to be the size of a baseball at arm's length and was observed at an angle of five degrees above the reporting aircraft. The weather conditions at the time were described as clear with bright moonlight. The report explicitly notes that there was no radar contact and no photographs or film were taken. The official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card is 'Unknown'. A secondary index card included in the file notes that 'Further investigation not directed by this headquarters.' The documentation includes teletype communications between various military commands, including the 34th Air Division and the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, confirming the administrative handling of the report under standard Air Force regulations (AFR 200-2).