Project 10073 Record Card — Tarrytown, New York, 8 August 1956

This document is a Project 10073 record card detailing a UFO sighting reported on 8 August 1956 in Tarrytown, New York. The witness, identified as a Police Sergeant, observed a large, yellow object at a very high altitude. The object was described as being five to six times larger than the North Star and appeared to move very slowly toward the southeast. The observation lasted for an indefinite period. The report includes military communication logs from the 26th Air Division and the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which processed the sighting. Following an evaluation of the report, the official conclusion reached by the investigating officers was that the object was the planet Mars, noting that the planet was in the position reported at the time of the sighting. The duty officer further remarked that the sighting was likely an astronomical phenomenon, possibly a star.