Project 10073 Record Card — New York City, New York, 4 September 1955

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype reports detailing a UFO sighting that occurred on September 4, 1955, in New York City. Two civilian witnesses, both identified as housewives residing on 57th Street, observed a single, round, yellow-white object with a concave surface. The object was described as spinning, translucent, and having fuzzy, ill-defined edges. It moved directly north at a constant altitude and at a speed estimated to be between that of conventional and jet-type aircraft. The observation lasted between 30 and 90 seconds. The witnesses reported that the object appeared to shutter or shake before eventually fading from view. The investigation was conducted by an intelligence officer from the 26th Air Division. The official conclusion reached was that the object was possibly an aircraft, noting that there were numerous aircraft in the area at the time of the sighting. The report explicitly rules out weather-related phenomena, such as temperature inversions or weather balloons, and notes that the sighting was not caused by searchlights. The documentation includes the original record card and subsequent teletype communications between the 26th Air Division, the Air Defense Command, and the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, confirming the details of the report and correcting a minor administrative error in the initial transmission.