Project 10073 Record Card — Booneville, Missouri, 7 August 1956

On 7 August 1956, at 0715Z, a witness located just south of Booneville, Missouri, observed an unidentified aerial object. The witness, identified as a manager, reported seeing an oblong object with a yellowish-white color and a green tail. The object was described as being the size of a football held at arm's length and appeared tapered. The sighting lasted for approximately one minute, during which the object traveled across three-quarters of the sky in a westerly direction at an estimated altitude of eight to ten thousand feet. The witness observed the object both with the naked eye and through binoculars, noting that it made no sound and eventually disappeared by gradually decreasing in size. The weather conditions at the time were reported as clear. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Air Technical Intelligence Center, was that the sighting was likely a meteor, with the witness having slightly overestimated the duration of the event. This assessment was based on the provided description and supporting data.