Project 10073 Record Card — Santa Fe, New Mexico, 5 November 1957

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and an associated teletype report regarding an unidentified aerial sighting reported on November 5, 1957, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two civilian witnesses, a mother and daughter, reported observing a stationary, round, red and white flashing object for approximately one and a half hours. The witnesses described the object as being the size of a silver dollar, with white lights following a red light and a white circle surrounding the white lights. The sighting occurred at night near the road crossing to White Lake, between Lamy and Clines Corners on US Highway 285. The weather conditions were noted as having high scattered clouds and low winds. The report was received verbally by T/SGT William Hutchinson in Santa Fe, who subsequently forwarded the information to the AEQ GOC on November 7, 1957. Official evaluation of the sighting concluded that the object was not an aircraft or astronomical phenomenon, but rather a ground light. Specifically, a review of aeronautical charts, including chart 406, indicated the presence of a rotating beacon on an airway light line southwest of the observers' location. Information provided by a Captain Nennigar at P-41 supported the conclusion that the suspected object was a light on an airway light line. The case was closed with the determination that the rotating beacon was the most probable cause of the sighting.