Project 10073 Record Card — Coleville, Washington, 19 January 1959

This document is a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype reports detailing a UFO sighting that occurred on January 19, 1959, in the vicinity of Coleville and Rice, Washington. The report documents two distinct observations of an aerial phenomenon. The first witness, a 60-year-old farmer from Rice, Washington, described a cigar-shaped object approximately 15 feet long, which was red in color and emitted a light exhaust in the form of a spray. This object was observed for approximately 10 seconds before it disappeared behind a hill during its descent. A second observation, reported by a 55-year-old individual from Colville, Washington, described a large ball-shaped object with a white trailing red color, which appeared like a ball of fire and maintained a straight and level flight path. The reports note that the witnesses were considered very reliable and did not drink. The military investigation, conducted by the 25th North American Air Defense Division (25 NADD), included weather data and confirmed that there was no local air traffic in the area at the time of the sighting. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Air Technical Intelligence Center, was that the object possessed the characteristics of a meteor. This assessment was bolstered by a second report from the same area and time, which led investigators to conclude that the object was indeed a meteor.