Project 10073 Record Card: Sighting in Guatemala, July 1956

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and two extracts from report IR-59-56, detailing unidentified aerial phenomena reported in Guatemala between July 20 and July 22, 1956. The primary sources for these reports were local press accounts, specifically from 'Prensa Libre'. The first incident involved a police squad stationed at 'finca San Luis Buena Vista', who reported seeing four 'flying saucers' traveling northward in low formation at high speed at 1100 hours. This report was received by the National Police Headquarters via telegraph. A second incident involved a primary school teacher, Manuel G. Leal V., who reported observing a luminous object shaped like a cigarette with his brother. He described the object as zigzagging across the sky at high speed, emitting pale red light flames, and moving toward the North until it disappeared. Mr. Leal, who resides in Santa Maria de Jesus, noted that he lived near the National Airport and explicitly discarded the possibility that the object was an aircraft. The official military evaluation of these reports, as noted on the record card, concluded that the information was insufficient for a formal evaluation, though it suggested the phenomena were possibly meteors.