Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Project 10073 Record Card — Balmville, New York, 9 August 1957
AI-Generated Summary
A sighting of a round, white, transparent object in Balmville, NY, on August 9, 1957, was investigated by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. The object was officially identified as a probable weather balloon.
This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype correspondence regarding a UFO sighting that occurred on August 9, 1957, in Balmville, New York. Two witnesses, a housewife and a poultry farmer, reported observing a single, round, white, transparent object with something extended underneath it. The object was estimated to be the size of a dime at arm's length and was observed for approximately 10 minutes, moving from the north to the northeast. The witnesses observed the object with the naked eye and light-power binoculars. Weather conditions at the time were reported as clear. The investigation, conducted by Captain Stephen M. Flanagan of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, concluded that the object was a probable weather balloon. The report notes that this sighting may involve the same object cited in a previous report, CFEIN-OI 223. The documentation includes technical details such as wind speeds at various altitudes and the specific coordinates of the sighting (4135N-7355W).
One object round, size unknown, color transparent w/something extended underneath.
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Official Assessment
Probable weather balloon
The object was identified as a probable weather balloon, possibly the same object cited in CFEIN-OI 223.
Witnesses
- [illegible]Housewife
- [illegible]Poultry Farmer