Project 10073 Record Card: Caribbean Sea Sighting, 25 June 1960

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated military correspondence regarding a sighting reported by a British West Indies Airlines flight on June 25, 1960. The pilot of a Viscount aircraft, while en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Barbados, observed a bright white object with a green center at 0207Z. The object was moving at high speed on a relative magnetic bearing of 225 degrees to the aircraft. One minute after the initial sighting, the object disintegrated into several green flaming objects. The official conclusion reached by the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center was that the description conformed to a bolide, or meteor. The record card notes that while samples were reportedly obtained, they were never received for analysis. The document also includes an extract from a Duty Officer's report dated June 27, 1960, which references the airline sighting alongside a separate report from Col. Gensen of the 26th Air Division. Col. Gensen had reported obtaining two samples of material, one described as a piece of material six inches in dimension that was light in weight like a sponge, and another described as a lemon-shaped piece of very light metal. The correspondence confirms that the airline report was received through NORAD and the Air Force Command Post.