Project 10073 Record Card: Capital Airlines Pilot Sighting, 3 Nov 60

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated teletype communications regarding an aerial sighting reported on November 3, 1960. A pilot flying for Capital Airlines observed a green and white object with a green glow and a white tail. The object was described as being in level flight before it disappeared instantaneously toward the south. The incident occurred at approximately 2315Z, with the pilot's position noted as being west of Goshen, Indiana. The report includes coordination between the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) and the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC). Official analysis concluded that the object was a meteor. This conclusion was supported by a report from another Capital Airlines Viscount aircraft that observed a meteor at approximately the same time in the same general vicinity. The documentation confirms that there was no radar contact, no photographic evidence, and no sound associated with the sighting. The weather was reported as clear. The final remarks on the record card explicitly state that the description is characteristic of a meteor and that there is little doubt regarding this classification.