Project 10073 Record Card — Brooklyn, New York, 23 February 1956

This document file contains a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding an Unidentified Flying Object sighting reported in Brooklyn, New York, on 23 February 1956. The primary witness was Sergeant George Pierce of the U.S. Army, who was walking his dog near his mother's residence at approximately 2000 hours. Sergeant Pierce reported hearing a noise resembling an aircraft in distress. Upon looking up, he observed a round, blue, fluorescent-lighted object. He described the object as heading toward Idlewild Airport, circling the facility, and subsequently departing toward lower New York. The report was initially received by the First Army Staff Duty Officer from a contact at the NY Journal American. The official evaluation by the Air Technical Intelligence Center concluded that the sighting was likely a misinterpretation of a conventional aircraft, noting that the maneuvers and general description were consistent with such an identification. The file includes administrative correspondence from the Inspector General of the USAF, Headquarters United States Air Force, regarding the inquiry and the routing of the report between the Air Defense Command and the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron. The documents were eventually forwarded to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, though a later endorsement noted that the reports failed to meet the agreed-upon investigative criteria due to the elapsed time between the sighting and the receipt of the report at headquarters.