Project 10073 Record Card and UFO Report — Forest Park, Illinois, 19 June 1959

This document consists of a Project 10073 Record Card and an associated military teletype report regarding a UFO sighting in Forest Park, Illinois, on June 19, 1959. The report was filed by the 62nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron at O'Hare International Airport. According to the documentation, a witness was sprinkling their lawn at 0400Z when they observed a single, cigar-shaped object. The witness described the object as having a greenish color and featuring four or five portholes. Additionally, the object was noted to have an exhaust flame approximately one and a half times the size of the object itself. The object traveled in a straight line toward the North-East for a duration of three to four seconds before fading into the distance and the haze of city lights. The weather conditions were reported as a clear night with 15 miles of visibility. The reporting officer, a 1st Lieutenant serving as a Security Officer, explicitly stated that they considered the source of the report to be reliable. Despite the detailed description provided by the witness, the official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card is that the object was 'Probably a meteor.' The report was transmitted to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and other relevant Air Force intelligence offices in accordance with Air Force Regulation 200-2.