Project 10073 Record Card — Woodside, California, Summer 1955

This document file contains a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding a UFO sighting in Woodside, California, during the summer of 1955. The primary sighting report was submitted by an individual who was seven years old at the time of the event and reported it nine years later. The witness described a round, silver, metal object resembling Saturn, with red and green lights and a misty white vapor trail. The object was observed for approximately two and a half minutes, moving in a straight line at an estimated speed of 200 mph and an altitude of 1.5 miles. The official Air Force evaluation concluded that the lights and flight pattern were indicative of an aircraft, noting that the only conflict with this assessment was the reported round shape. The file also includes correspondence from 1964 between a civilian named Steff Millard and the Air Force Foreign Technology Division. Mr. Millard requested information on UFOs, expressing skepticism regarding official explanations and citing his own sighting and the 1952 Washington D.C. radar sightings. The Air Force responses, signed by Major Maston M. Jacks and Colonel Eric T. de Jonckheere, maintain that there is no evidence of intelligent beings from other planets visiting Earth. They attribute the Washington D.C. sightings to mirage effects caused by double inversions and explain the Captain Mantell case as a misidentified weather balloon released under a then-classified Navy project. The correspondence highlights the tension between public interest in UFO phenomena and the Air Force's official stance that such reports are typically misinterpretations of natural phenomena or conventional objects.