Project 10073 Record Card — Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, 3 September 1958

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated intelligence report regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting that occurred on September 3, 1958, in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania. The report details a sighting by a civilian witness who observed a round, very bright object for a duration of approximately 20 minutes. The object was reported to be at an altitude of two to three thousand feet. The report notes that the weather conditions at the time included scattered clouds and specific wind conditions aloft. The sighting was processed by the 662nd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron at Brookfield Air Force Station, Ohio, and subsequently forwarded to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The intelligence officer, 1st Lt. Howard H. Delly, conducted an evaluation of the report. The final conclusion reached by the investigating authorities was that the object was not an unidentified aerial phenomenon in the traditional sense, but rather the planet Mars, which was confirmed to be in the location reported by the observer through the use of astronomical plots and charts. The document includes standard military reporting headers, including the date-time group 03/0505Z and references to the report number S-795. The record card format follows the standard ATIC Form 329, which was used for documenting such reports during this period. The report explicitly states that no radar contact was made and no photographs were taken of the object.