Project 10073 Record Card — Oakland, California, September 1955

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype communications regarding a sighting in Oakland, California, in September 1955. A civilian witness reported observing a single, dark blue, ball-shaped object that possessed a tail. The witness described the object as having 'blew up tail on fire.' The duration of the observation was approximately 60 seconds. Following the report, three F-86D aircraft were vectored from a Combat Air Patrol (CAP) to the area of the reported sighting, but the pilots reported seeing nothing. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Aerospace Studies Institute at Maxwell AFB, was that the object was a meteor, noting that the witness's report likely involved an exaggerated length of observation. The teletype correspondence confirms the administrative routing of the report between the 462nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Hamilton AFB, the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, and the Director of Intelligence at the USAF headquarters in Washington, D.C.