Project 10073 Record Card and Incident Report — Henderson, New York, July 1959

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and a follow-up military teletype report regarding an Unidentified Flying Object sighting that occurred on July 22, 1959, in Henderson, New York. The witness, described as an engineer and a former United States Air Force pilot, observed a single cylindrical object that appeared to be the size of a baseball bat. The object was white, reflected the sun, and was observed in a vertical position. The witness reported that the object was slow-moving and orbiting for a duration of 45 minutes before fading from sight. The observation was made using 7-power German binoculars under clear weather conditions. The report was transmitted by the 655th RADRON SAGE to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Official conclusions reached by the evaluating agency determined that the object was a balloon, citing the movement and appearance of the object in conjunction with recorded wind data at the time of the sighting.