Project 10073 Record Card and Supplement to AF Form 112 — Lincoln AFB, Nebraska, 13 February 1957

This document is an Air Intelligence Information Report (D2-UFOB-1-57) detailing a series of sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena near Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska, on 13 February 1957. The report compiles accounts from five witnesses, including control tower operators and the Director of Operations of the 98th Bomb Wing. Witnesses observed multiple flashing red lights moving erratically in the north and northeast quadrants of the base. The objects were tracked by Lincoln GCA radar, which identified four targets at fifteen miles. The duration of the observation was approximately thirty minutes. Witnesses described the objects as reddish-white, flashing or rotating, and comparable in brightness to an automobile headlight. The investigation included checks with local weather stations, universities, and commercial airlines. The weather was reported as clear. The preparing officer, Captain La Verne W. Poland, concluded that the objects were likely commercial aircraft, citing the resemblance to aircraft beacons and the presence of United Air Lines flights in the area at the time. The approving officer, Colonel John W. Meador, suggested the event might have been two separate sightings, one involving aircraft and another involving a weather balloon. The document also contains supplementary pages documenting various other UFO reports from February 1957 across the United States and Japan, which are categorized as 'Information Only' and not treated as formal cases. The report concludes with a final evaluation of 'Probably Aircraft' and 'Possibly Balloon'.