Project 10073 Record Card — Lincoln, New Hampshire, 20 SEP 61

This document contains a collection of records related to the September 1961 sighting by Barney and Betty Hill in Lincoln, New Hampshire. The primary record is a Project 10073 card, which documents a visual and radar sighting occurring between 0001 and 0100 hours on September 20, 1961. The witnesses reported a cigar-shaped object with red lights on its tips that appeared V-shaped and moved abruptly before disappearing. The official Air Force conclusion, as detailed in a memorandum from the Foreign Technology Division dated September 27, 1963, classifies the case as having 'insufficient data.' The Air Force investigators attributed both the visual and radar reports to a strong atmospheric inversion present in the area at the time. They suggested the visual sighting likely resembled an advertising searchlight and that the radar contact was a ground target reflected by the inversion. The document also includes extensive meteorological data, specifically adiabatic charts from the Weather Bureau for Portland, Maine, used to analyze the atmospheric conditions of the period. Furthermore, the file contains excerpts from a 1966 Look magazine article by John G. Fuller, which recounts the Hills' later claims of an abduction experience, including their sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon. The Air Force correspondence explicitly notes that the case was not evaluated as an extraterrestrial event due to the lack of positional data and the presence of the planet Jupiter in the sky at the time, which they believed could have been mistaken for the object. The document serves as a comprehensive record of the official military investigation and the subsequent public narrative surrounding the Hill case.