Project 10073 Record Card: Lithonia, Georgia Sighting

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype report regarding a UFO sighting in Lithonia, Georgia, on November 9, 1957. The witness, a service station operator named W.E. Graham, reported observing an oblong object, approximately the size of an automobile, for a duration of one hour and forty minutes. The witness described the object as changing colors from green to yellow to red before the light extinguished as if it had been turned off. The object was reported to be moving from East to West. Military investigators from the 35th Air Division and ATIC evaluated the report and ultimately concluded that the object was the planet Venus. The investigative notes express significant skepticism regarding the witness's report, highlighting that essential information such as elevation, direction, and bearing were missing. The investigator specifically critiqued the witness's claim that the object appeared the size of an automobile, noting that such a comparison at 'arms length' was unreliable. The report concludes that there was insufficient data to identify the object as anything other than the planet Venus, which was noted as being very bright in the sky at the time of the incident.