Project 10073 Record Card: Sighting in Canton, Alliance, Springfield, Ohio, 7 May 1956

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype messages regarding an unidentified aerial object sighting reported on May 7, 1956. The sighting occurred in the vicinity of Alliance, Ohio, involving a single, round, silver object observed for approximately twenty minutes. Witnesses, including T/Sgt Dennis Persons of the Canton Ground Observer Corps and a civilian named Kermit Ward, described the object as being the size of a half-dollar held at arm's length, drifting slowly toward the North at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet. The report explicitly notes that there was no sound associated with the object and that weather conditions were very clear. The military investigation, conducted by the 662nd ACWRON and evaluated by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), concluded that the object was likely a balloon, citing the specific drifting behavior, the duration of the observation, and the time of day as primary factors for this determination.