PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD — Sighting of 23 June 1960

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and supporting correspondence regarding a sighting on June 23, 1960. A witness, identified as an ex-captain of the Air Transport Command, reported observing a brilliant, teardrop-shaped object with a long, whitish tail falling straight down while driving near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, at approximately 10:20 P.M. The witness noted that the object initially appeared blueish-green through a tinted windshield before turning brilliant and whitish. The report includes military communications between the 32nd Air Division at Dobbins AFB and the Air Tactical Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, which confirm that Coast Guard reports from New Orleans also documented the sighting of a circular object with a long burning tail traveling east to west. A separate press clipping from the Associated Press notes that an Air Force plane crew also reported a brilliant object over the Gulf of Mexico on the same night, suggesting it may have been a meteor. The official conclusion reached by the Air Tactical Center was that the object was a meteor, likely associated with a meteorological shower witnessed in the New Orleans and Arkansas vicinity. The documentation includes a copy directed to Dr. Hynek, indicating the involvement of scientific review in the evaluation process.