Project 10073 Record Card: Sighting in Kansas City, Kansas, 23 May 1957

On May 23, 1957, at 1415Z, a sighting of four unidentified aerial objects occurred in Kansas City, Kansas. The witnesses, identified as employees of the Public Utilities Power Station located on Twelfth Street and the Missouri River, observed the objects for a duration of a few minutes. The objects were described as disc-shaped, approximately half the size of the moon, with one object featuring a red-painted surface. The objects appeared from the northeast, flew in pairs, circled, and then proceeded northwest before disappearing in a trail. The report, filed by Major William F. Sager, Director of Intelligence for the 20th Air Division, notes that there were two-engine transport-type aircraft in the vicinity at the time of the sighting. The official conclusion reached by the military authorities was that the incident was a 'probable a/c [aircraft] sighting.' The documentation includes a Project 10073 record card, a teletype report, and an excerpt from a book by Ruppelt, which provides a slightly different account, stating that five observers saw the objects and that they were silver in color. The official military report remains consistent in its classification of the event as a probable aircraft sighting.