Project 10073 Record Card — Lake Worth, Florida, 26 November 1957

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype communications regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon reported on 26 November 1957 in Lake Worth, Florida. The witness, identified as a local housewife, reported seeing a single, reddish, star-like object, approximately the size of a dime, moving between clouds from the south-southeast to the north-northwest. The observation lasted for several seconds. The military investigation, conducted by the 1707th Air Transport Wing and reported to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), noted that the sighting occurred at 2332 GMT. The report explicitly states that the object was not the Russian Sputnik satellite. The investigators noted that there were several aircraft in the vicinity at the time of the sighting and suggested that the object could have been an aircraft or a meteor. Ultimately, the report concluded that there was insufficient data to reach a definitive identification. Handwritten annotations on the document suggest an alternative theory that the object was an aircraft reflecting the rays of the setting sun. The document also references the presence of two C-124 aircraft and one SA-16 aircraft flying locally at the time of the report.