Project 10073 Record Card — Great Mills, Maryland, 19 Oct 59

On October 19, 1959, at 0755Z, a sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon was reported by the crews of National Airlines Flight 118 and Eastern Airlines Flight 642. The object was described as round, reddish-white in color, and approximately five to six times the size of an average star. A distinctive feature noted by the observers was the presence of green wings protruding from the object. The sighting occurred while the aircraft were flying in the vicinity of Great Mills, Maryland, specifically 30 miles east-northeast of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station radio station and 15 to 25 miles south of the Conlord intersection on Airway Red-77. The weather conditions at the time were reported as clear with 15 miles of visibility. The report was processed through the Department of the Air Force Staff Message Division and disseminated to various military commands, including the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Despite the involvement of multiple airline captains, the investigation was hampered by the fact that the pilots were not available for further interrogation. Consequently, no follow-up was attempted, and the official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 record card was that there was insufficient data available for any attempt at analysis.