Project 10073 Record Card — Sighting West of Portugal, 22 October 1957

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and an associated military teletype message regarding an aerial sighting on October 22, 1957. A Venezuelan aircraft, identified by call sign YVCAME, reported observing a strange object while in route. The sighting occurred at 221938Z at coordinates 3800N 1500W, west of Portugal. The witness described the object as appearing approximately 40 degrees above the western horizon, moving from south to north at a high speed. The report explicitly notes that the object was 'high & fast' and that no further information was available to the reporting center. While the initial report suggested the object might be the Sputnik satellite, the official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card states that the object was 'definitely not sputnik' and was 'probably a meteor.' The documentation includes the original teletype transmission from FSC Omsted AFB, Pennsylvania, to various Air Defense Command and Air Technical Intelligence units, confirming the receipt of the information from New York OAC. The record card serves as the formal summary of this incident within the Project 10073 framework.