Project 10073 Record Card - Los Lunas, New Mexico, 2 September 1961

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and a supporting teletype report regarding a UFO sighting that occurred on September 2, 1961, near Los Lunas, New Mexico. The witness, whose identity and reliability were listed as unknown, reported observing a single, shiny, silvery object approximately three feet in length that appeared to fall to the ground on a farm in the Bosque area. The report indicates that no photographs were taken, no radar contact was made, and no physical evidence such as missing parts, tanks, or hatches was found at the site. The investigating officer, Major V. O. Hall of Kirtland Air Force Base, noted that the observer made no effort to retrieve or examine the object. While the officer suspected the sighting was the result of an inversion reflection, the official conclusion recorded on the card is that there was insufficient data to form a valid conclusion. The teletype, dated September 3, 1961, confirms the details of the sighting and notes that the report was received by another agency before being processed by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC). The document provides meteorological data for the time of the incident, including an inversion of three degrees between 16,000 and 13,000 feet, which likely informed the investigator's suspicion regarding atmospheric reflection.