Project 10073 Record Card — Seattle, Washington, August 1961

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding a UFO sighting in Seattle, Washington, in August 1961. A civilian witness, identified as a student, contacted the 'Post Intelligencer' newspaper claiming to have taken photographs of an object that they insisted was not a weather balloon. The witness expressed a desire to compare their photographs with others who might have captured the same event. Major William T. Coleman, Jr., acting as the UFO Project Officer for the United States Air Force, subsequently wrote to the witness on August 17, 1961, requesting that the photographs and technical details regarding the camera settings, time, and location be forwarded to the Air Force for analysis, promising to return the materials within several days. The official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card is that the object was a balloon. The investigator's notes indicate that the witness did not comply with the request to provide the photographs for analysis. Consequently, the case was closed and classified as a balloon sighting based on the available evidence, with the note that the case file was not forwarded.