Project 10073 Record Card and Spot Intelligence Report — Keystone Heights, Florida, 4 August 1956

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and a subsequent Spot Intelligence Report dated 9 August 1956, detailing a sighting that occurred on 4 August 1956. A Naval Officer stationed at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville, Florida, reported observing an unidentified flying object near Keystone Heights, Florida, at approximately 2200 hours. The witness described the object as a small ball of flame traveling horizontally, accompanied by several smaller balls of flame trailing behind it. The object was visible for approximately two seconds before disappearing behind trees, moving from the East Northeast toward the West Southwest. The witness initially speculated that the object might have been a rocket. The report was processed by Special Agent Leroy Crosley of the Jacksonville OSI Detachment and forwarded to the Director of Special Investigations at the Headquarters of the United States Air Force. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating authorities was that the duration of the sighting and the nature of the horizontal flight path ruled out a rocket, and that the available data indicated the object was a meteor.