Project 10073 Record Card and Correspondence — Hialeah, Florida, 28 April 1961

This document collection contains a Project 10073 record card and subsequent correspondence regarding a UFO sighting in Hialeah, Florida, on April 28, 1961. The original report describes a silver-like object that appeared in the sky, vanished, and was suspected by the witness to be an aircraft. Two years later, on July 1, 1963, the witness wrote to the Air Force to inquire about the existence of flying saucers, referencing the 1961 incident as the day they thought they saw one. The witness requested information and pamphlets to prove the existence of such phenomena to friends. On July 9, 1963, Colonel Eric T. Jonckheere of the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base responded to the inquiry. In his memorandum to Hq USAF SAF-OI 3b, Colonel Jonckheere stated that there was no evidence to support the existence of vehicles under intelligent control from outer space. He dismissed the witness's questions regarding the nature of flying saucers as inapplicable, noting that they assumed the existence of such craft. Regarding the 1961 sighting, the Colonel concluded that the report was very vague and, given the witness's own initial assessment, it was probable that an aircraft had been sighted. The case was officially closed and categorized as an aircraft sighting.