Project 10073 Record Card - Woburn, Massachusetts - 9 August 1956

This document is a Project 10073 record card detailing a sighting that occurred on August 9, 1956, in Woburn, Massachusetts. The witness reported observing a single, yellow, comet or disc-shaped object for a duration of ninety minutes. The object was described as being relatively stationary, though it exhibited motions to the left, right, up, and down before eventually disappearing by fading in the same location. The sighting was made visually and through binoculars at an elevation of 30 degrees and an azimuth of 360 degrees. The report explicitly notes that there were no photographs taken and no radar contact made. The official conclusion reached by the investigators was that the sighting was likely an astronomical phenomenon—specifically a star viewed through an acute temperature inversion. The investigators noted that the object's shape, size, color, motions, and stationary position supported this conclusion. The second page of the document contains fragmented, partially illegible text that appears to be related to the administrative processing of the report, including references to military units and classification markings, though much of this is obscured or degraded.