Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Project 10073 Record Card — Collinsville, Illinois, August 1958
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A 1958 sighting report from Collinsville, Illinois, involving a twelve-year-old witness who observed a round, greenish-white object. The Air Force concluded the case as having insufficient data.
This document contains a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding a UFO sighting reported in Collinsville, Illinois, on August 10, 1958. The report originated from a letter written by a parent on behalf of their twelve-year-old son, who claimed to have observed an unusual flying object while lying in bed. The witness described the object as round with a bump on top, greenish-white in color with purple lights, and noted that it traveled faster than a jet. According to the account, the object descended from a high altitude, performed a 90-degree turn, and flew north without making any sound. The sighting lasted approximately two seconds. The Air Force evaluation, conducted by Colonel H. K. Gilbert of AFCIN-4E, dismissed the report as having insufficient data. The official assessment suggested that the witness, being young and potentially looking through a dusty window, may have been mistaken. While the report initially considered the possibility of a meteor, the observed 90-degree turn was noted as a factor that would rule out such an explanation. The final determination was that the report was inconclusive.
It is doubtful the young boy, lying down and looking through a possibly dusty window, could be oriented enough to say the object turned north.
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Official Assessment
Possible meteor except that the turn indicated would rule this out. Sighting through window with 2 second duration. Case listed as insufficient data.
The evaluating officer concluded that the report lacked sufficient information to form a valid conclusion. It was suggested that the witness, a young boy, might have been mistaken or influenced by an active imagination, and that the object's appearance might have been a fireball.