Project 10073 Record Card — Bellingham, Washington, 8 March 1956

This document is a Project 10073 record card detailing a sighting that occurred on March 8, 1956, in Bellingham, Washington. A 70-year-old civilian witness reported observing a single, round, dark grey object, approximately the size of a basketball, moving in level flight before disappearing behind a mill. The observation lasted for two minutes under conditions of broken clouds and clear visibility. The report notes that the witness did not provide information regarding the object's speed or the distance it traveled. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency was that the object was an aircraft, citing the observed level flight path as the primary indicator. The report explicitly states that there was nothing conflicting with an aircraft analysis. The documentation includes a teletype report (RJWPDM 82A) sent on March 9, 1956, which confirms the details of the sighting, including the object's shape, color, and the witness's age. The report was distributed to various military commands, including the 25th Air Division at McChord AFB, the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, and the Air Defense Command at Ent AFB.