Project 10073 Record Card — Atlanta, Georgia, 23 October 1957

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype report concerning an unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, on 23 October 1957. The report details a single, round, reddish object, described as being the size of a basketball at arm's length. The object was observed for a duration of five minutes, moving along a flight path from 150 degrees to 180 degrees. The sighting was reported by a military witness. The weather conditions at the time were noted as cloudy with 4/10 broken clouds. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), was that the sighting was likely caused by an aircraft. This determination was based on the object's flight path, duration, and physical description. The document includes administrative teletype communications between various Air Force commands, including the Air Defense Command and the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Handwritten annotations on the teletype pages suggest that there were some inconsistencies in the reported data, specifically regarding the object's speed and course, which were noted by the reviewing officers. The report was processed in accordance with Air Force Regulation 200-2, dated 12 August 1954, which governed the reporting of unidentified flying objects.