Project 10073 Record Card — Pecos, Texas, 18 June 1958

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype messages regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon reported on June 18, 1958, in Pecos, Texas. The sighting was reported by members of the Pecos Police Department. The witnesses described a round object, approximately the size of a dime, exhibiting colors ranging from white to red with bright orange in between. The object was observed for 50 minutes, with a flight path described as moving East, then South, then changing to North to East, and finally moving straight up. The report notes the presence of vapor in the rear of the object. The weather conditions at the time were reported as clear with no winds. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Air Technical Intelligence Center, was that the object was the planet Venus, which was calculated to be at 15 degrees elevation and 100 degrees azimuth at the time of the report. The documentation includes internal military communications between the 885th ACWRON at Las Cruces AFS and various Air Force commands, including the Air Defense Command and the Air Technical Intelligence Center, confirming the details of the report and the subsequent identification of the object.