Project 1C.J73 Record Card and Incident Report — Winter Haven, Florida, January 1960

This document consists of a Project 1C.J73 record card and a subsequent military report detailing a UFO sighting in Winter Haven, Florida, on January 7, 1960. The witness, a civilian housewife described as having normal reliability, reported observing a reddish, circular object, approximately the size of a grapefruit, at 2145Z. According to the report, the object approached from the East, circled in a tight radius for approximately two minutes, and then departed in a southerly direction while gaining altitude. The witness noted that the object left a trail that appeared circular, which the report attributes to atmospheric distortion. The military investigation, conducted by the 1266th AISS, concluded that the sighting was not an unidentified aerial phenomenon but rather the result of an Atlas ICBM launch from Cape Canaveral. The report includes detailed weather and wind-aloft conditions at the time of the sighting, noting clear skies and visibility exceeding ten miles. The document is marked as unclassified and was submitted in compliance with AFR 200-2.