Project 10073 Record Card and Incident Report — West Bloomfield, Michigan, May 26, 1959

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and a subsequent teletype report regarding an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sighting that occurred on May 26, 1959, at 0025 hours in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The witness, a 34-year-old civilian housewife, reported observing a single, circular, bright red object, described as being the size of a basketball, moving rapidly at a high altitude in a northern direction. The observation was described as a 'momentary glimpse' under fair weather conditions with scattered high overcast and calm surface winds. The report was processed by ACWRON and forwarded to various military commands, including the Air Defense Command (ADC). Captain Dale G. Fredeen, the ACWRON Senior Director, provided an assessment that the object was possibly the large red flashing safety light of a civilian airliner, noting the presence of two civilian airfields and two military airfields within a forty-mile radius of the observation point. The record card includes a note from an investigating officer stating that while the witness may have seen an aircraft, the case was classified as having insufficient evidence, as a momentary glimpse was deemed inadequate to reach a definitive conclusion. No physical evidence, photographs, or radar contacts were associated with the event.