Project 10073 Record Card and Correspondence Regarding Berlin Sighting

This document collection contains a Project 10073 record card and subsequent correspondence regarding a sighting reported by a German national in Berlin on December 21, 1959. The witness, a psychotherapist, wrote to the United States military office of defense in Washington, D.C., describing a celestial body she observed at approximately 18:53 or 18:54 hours. She reported seeing a radiant white ball with a diameter of 0.12 to 0.15 meters, accompanied by a flaring red comet-like tail, moving at great velocity between the constellations of Taurus and Eridanus before disappearing near Aries. The observation lasted approximately three seconds. The witness had previously read a newspaper report about a similar celestial body and sought to compare her experience with official records. The Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) investigated the report and determined that their files contained no record of a UFO sighting on that date. In a memorandum dated March 23, 1960, Colonel Philip G. Evans of the ATIC informed Major Tacker of the Public Information Division that the description provided by the witness was consistent with a meteor. This conclusion was formally communicated to the witness in a letter dated March 25, 1960, signed by Major Lawrence J. Tacker, which stated that the Air Force could not correlate her sighting with any other reports and that the object was likely a meteor.