Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Project 10073 Record Card and Incident Report — Hamilton, Ohio and Seattle, Washington
AI-Generated Summary
The document contains two distinct UAP sighting reports from 1957, one in Hamilton, Ohio, and one in Seattle, Washington. The Ohio sighting was officially attributed to an aircraft, while the Seattle report provides detailed descriptive characteristics of a cylindrical object.
This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype communications regarding unidentified aerial phenomena. The primary record card documents a sighting in Hamilton, Ohio, on July 3, 1957, at 040215Z. The witness reported a single, round, red object, approximately the size of a grapefruit at arm's length, moving in a northerly direction and oscillating vertically for ten minutes. The official conclusion for this incident suggests it was likely an aircraft. The document also includes a teletype report originating from the 25th CADD at McChord AFB, Washington, detailing a separate sighting by a 25-year-old woman in Seattle. This witness described a cylindrical, orange object with two smaller parallel lights that blinked infrequently. She observed the object for five hours while looking for sparklers near her home, noting its slow movement and an elevation of 13 degrees. The teletype also references a separate, unrelated incident involving a sheriff who investigated a report of a light and heard voices near a lake. The documentation reflects the standard military procedure for reporting and evaluating UAP sightings during the 1950s, involving coordination between various Air Force and CONAD units.
One round red object the size of a grapefruit at arm's length. Object was seen moving in a northerly direction, moving up and down. Object was seen visually for ten minutes.
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Official Assessment
Description, duration, flight path indicate that this sighting was probably caused by an aircraft.
The sighting in Hamilton, Ohio, was attributed to an aircraft, while the Seattle report remains largely descriptive with no specific conclusion provided.
Witnesses
Key Persons
- SheriffInvestigated a sighting