Project 10073 Record Card and Correspondence — Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 1957

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated military teletype correspondence regarding a UFO sighting on November 26, 1957, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The sighting involved a single, white, star-shaped object observed at approximately 2325Z. The witness, associated with the University of Michigan Observatory, reported that the object moved across the sky in a flat trajectory at a high rate of speed, faster than the Sputnik satellite, before fading out like a meteor. The duration of the observation was approximately four to five seconds. Military authorities at the 30th Air Division at Willow Run Air Force Station forwarded the report to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A follow-up letter dated March 10, 1958, from the University of Michigan Observatory to Dr. J. Allen Hynek at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory clarifies the circumstances. The author of the letter explains that they were observing the sky in search of Sputnik II with a government-employed friend when they witnessed the object. The author noted that the object's speed and direction precluded it from being Sputnik, and they had never seen a meteor with such a long path and low brightness. Despite these observations, the author concluded that it was likely a meteor. Handwritten annotations on the military report indicate that the document was sent to a Dr. Goldbey for investigation with instructions to 'declare this.' The final conclusion recorded on the card is that the object was 'probably meteor,' a finding concurred with by the University of Michigan Observatory.