Project 10073 Record Card — USS Boyd Sighting, Vicinity Taiwan, 29 August 1960

On August 29, 1960, at 1116Z, personnel aboard the USS Boyd, operating in the vicinity of Taiwan, observed an unidentified aerial object. The sighting was reported through official military channels, specifically via the US Taiwan Joint Operations Center in Taipei. The witness, identified as LT JG Stockton, described the object as a round, white, bright light, comparable in appearance to a planet, and approximately the size of a pinhead. The object was observed for a duration of four minutes through binoculars as it traveled in a northeasterly direction before disappearing over the horizon. The weather conditions at the time were reported as having scattered low stratus clouds with unlimited visibility and 5% cloud cover. The report was processed under Project 10073. Following an analysis by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), the object was officially identified as the Echo I satellite. The analysis noted that while the reported duration of the sighting was slightly shorter than expected for Echo I, this discrepancy was attributed to a potential reporting error. The document includes a record card summarizing the incident and a teletype message detailing the transmission of the report to various military commands, including CINCNORAD and the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.