Project 10073 Record Card and Air Intelligence Information Report — 19 November 1957

This document is a Project 10073 record card and an accompanying Air Intelligence Information Report regarding a UFO sighting that occurred on 19 November 1957, near Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. Two civilian witnesses, a 43-year-old sales representative and a 44-year-old housewife, reported observing a white, star-shaped object, approximately the size of a baseball, moving through the sky for a duration of three minutes. According to the report, the object appeared from the west, traveled at high speed in level flight, turned southwest, performed a complete circle, and eventually disappeared on a northwest heading at an estimated altitude of 40,000 feet. Major John W. Porter, the investigating officer from the Chief Flight Operations Division at Robins Air Force Base, conducted an assessment of the incident. He noted that there was a T-33 aircraft flying continuous patterns at 20,000 feet in the area at the time of the sighting, which exhibited flight characteristics similar to those described by the witnesses. Although the pilots of the T-33 and a C-45 aircraft in the vicinity did not report seeing an unidentified object, the official conclusion reached by the investigation was that the observers had likely sighted a light from the T-33 aircraft. The report was submitted in compliance with AFR 200-2 and distributed to the Air Defense Command (ADC).