Project 10073 Record Card — Amarillo, Texas, 9 July 1957

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype report concerning an unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting in Amarillo, Texas, on July 9, 1957. The report was filed by the Commander of the 688th ACWRON at Amarillo Air Force Base. According to the report, two men observed a round, silver object, described as being roughly the size of a pea or slightly smaller than a basketball, following a B-36 aircraft. The witnesses reported that the object stopped for a period before moving straight up. The sighting was reported by Bob B. Tally, a sewage plant operator. The military investigation, led by 1/LT Henry A. Miller, concluded that the object was a weather balloon. This conclusion was supported by the fact that a weather balloon had been released in the vicinity at approximately the same time as the sighting. The report follows standard CONAD air surveillance procedures as outlined in the September 1955 manual. The documentation includes detailed weather and wind aloft conditions for the time of the incident, confirming clear skies. The report was distributed to various military commands, including the Air Defense Command and the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.