Project 10073 Record Card — Lumberport, West Virginia, June 1956

This document file contains records regarding a UFO sighting reported in 1960 by a witness who was eight years old at the time of the event, which occurred in June 1956 near Lumberport, West Virginia. The witness, identified in correspondence as a child, wrote to the Commander-in-Chief of the U.F.O.s at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to describe a bright, silvery, tear-drop-shaped object (upside down) that was observed proceeding west at an altitude of 8,000 feet. The witness compared the object's speed to that of a single-engine airplane. The Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) processed the report under Project 10073. In an internal memorandum dated April 26, 1960, Colonel Philip C. Evans noted that the case was quite old and that the witness's memory was likely fuzzy. He suggested sending an ATIC Form #164 questionnaire to the witness to prevent further unnecessary correspondence. Subsequently, on May 18, 1960, Major Lawrence J. Tacker of the Public Information Division wrote to the witness, acknowledging the letter and requesting that the attached questionnaire be completed and returned to the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center for a valid conclusion. The official record card for the sighting concludes that the object was likely a misinterpretation of an aircraft, noting that the duration, speed, flight path, and general description were consistent with such an explanation.