Project 10073 Record Card and Incident Report — Roswell, New Mexico, 28 September 1960

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and an associated military teletype report regarding an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed on September 28, 1960, in Roswell, New Mexico. Two city police officers, whose reliability was noted as above average, reported observing a round, vivid green object with an orange tail. The object was estimated to be the size of the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle and was observed for approximately three to four seconds as it descended at a 25-degree angle of elevation before disappearing below the tree line. The observers were in a moving vehicle traveling east on 3rd Street at the time of the sighting. The report includes detailed meteorological data for the area, noting clear skies and unrestricted visibility. Captain Paul J. Bates of the 6th Bombardment Wing at Walker Air Force Base investigated the incident. He concluded that the description and duration of the object were typical of a meteor. This conclusion was supported by reports of a similar meteor sighting at Wichita Falls, Texas, occurring at the same time. The report explicitly states that a B-52 aircraft operating in the area was not believed to be related to the sighting. The document also references a similar report published by the Associated Press in the Roswell Daily Record on September 27, 1960, which described sightings in Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and White Sands, attributed by a UFO reporting officer at Holloman Air Force Base to high meteorite activity common for that time of year.