Project 10073 Record Card — Zaragoza AB, Spain, 28 August 1960

This document contains the official record and subsequent correspondence regarding a UFO sighting that occurred on August 28, 1960, at Zaragoza Air Base, Spain. Four personnel, including tower operators and an air police officer, observed an object at approximately 1854 local time. The witnesses described the object as an elongated ball with a very bright white forward end and an orange or red tail, accompanied by a short trail of sparks. The object traveled in a straight line on a 030-degree heading and disappeared instantaneously. The duration of the sighting was estimated at 5 to 10 seconds. The observers were scanning the sky when they sighted the object at 32 degrees above the horizon, with one observer noting it overhead. The witnesses were considered excellent by their superiors. Following the initial report, the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base requested a re-transmission of the report, noting that the original message (BDCO 08-125) was garbled. The re-transmitted report provided detailed descriptions of the object's appearance and the observers' locations. Despite the Flight Facilities Officer at the 123rd AACS Squadron explicitly stating that the object was not an Echo satellite and that the intensity of the light and the level flight path made a falling star (meteor) improbable, the official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 record card was that the sighting was probably a meteor.