Project 10073 Record Card - Sighting Report 12 Jan 59

This document consists of a Project 10073 Record Card and associated military correspondence regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon reported on January 12, 1959, near Taiwan. The sighting occurred one nautical mile southwest of Ping Tung North Airfield. The witness described the object as a red, green, and white globe that exhibited a clockwise rotating motion. The report explicitly states that the object was not detected by either ground or airborne radar systems. Military communications indicate that the sighting was initially reported through Marine Air Group One and subsequently processed through official channels, including a submission to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating center was that there was insufficient data to perform a meaningful evaluation of the incident, citing a lack of specific details such as elevation and azimuth. The correspondence includes internal routing messages between military offices in April 1959, confirming the submission of the report under Form 112 (IR1-264-500) as directed by Air Force Regulation 200-22. The documents were originally classified as Secret but were later downgraded to Unclassified in May 1959.