Project 10073 Record Card — Sighting near White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas, March 1, 1959

This document consists of a series of military communications and a Project 10073 record card regarding a UFO sighting reported on March 1, 1959, near White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. Two civilian witnesses, a supervisor of technical illustration at Temco Aircraft and a service manager at Royal McBee Typewriter Corp, reported observing a cylindrical, aluminum-colored object, described as being the size of a dime, moving in a straight but rolling path for approximately 10 seconds. The sighting was reported to the 745th ACWRON at Duncanville AFS. Following the report, the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) requested an investigation to determine if the object was an aircraft or a balloon. The 745th ACWRON responded that due to the high volume of air traffic in the Dallas area and the fact that March 1 was a VFR (Visual Flight Rules) day with clear weather, it was impossible for the station to definitively confirm the presence of any specific aircraft in the area at that time. The final conclusion recorded on the project card suggests that the description provided by the witnesses was similar to an aircraft, which was likely what was sighted. The documentation includes internal military message forms, a record card, and follow-up correspondence between the 745th ACWRON and ATIC, with various officers, including Col. Glaser, Col. Gilbert, and Maj. Robert J. Friend, involved in the coordination and review of the report.