Project 10073 Record Card — Washington Island, Wisconsin, November 1957

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated military correspondence regarding a UFO sighting reported on Washington Island, Wisconsin, in November 1957. The primary witness, Mrs. C. B. Eaton, a 45-year-old housewife and Ground Observer Corps (GOC) observer, reported seeing a round, pink object that appeared larger than a star. The observation lasted for approximately two minutes, during which the object traveled in a North East direction before fading over the horizon. The witness estimated the altitude at 100 miles, a figure that prompted handwritten annotations on the document questioning how such an altitude could be determined by the naked eye. The report was processed by the 676th ACWRON and forwarded to various military commands, including the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The official conclusion recorded on the card is 'Possibly Aircraft,' with a handwritten note in the comments section stating 'possibly a jet a/c.' Additional handwritten notes on the document address the possibility of the object being the Russian Sputnik satellite, explicitly noting that it was not Sputnik because the satellite was on the other side of the earth at the time of the sighting. The document includes standard reporting fields for sighting characteristics, such as shape, color, and duration, and reflects the administrative process for handling aerial reports during this period.