Project 10073 Record Card - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - 28 May 1957

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype communications regarding an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) sighting on May 28, 1957, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The sighting occurred at 0630 Z and involved a single, round, bluish-green object described as being the size of a baseball. Witnesses, including a tower operator at Will Rogers Field and airline pilots, reported that the object appeared to light up, split into two segments, and fall straight to earth. The duration of the observation was approximately three seconds. The weather was reported as clear. The official conclusion reached by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and supported by 1st Lt. Richard Hughes, the Senior Director, was that the object was an astronomical meteor. The report notes that the sighting was characteristic of meteors and was viewed over a wide area by both ground and air observers. The teletype communication confirms the details of the sighting, including the involvement of American Airlines and Braniff Airways personnel, and provides meteorological data for the time of the event.