Project 10073 Record Card and Related Correspondence — November 1961

This document collection centers on a Project 10073 record card detailing a CIRVIS report of an unidentified flying object sighted on November 29, 1961, at 0705Z. The object was observed south of position 40N 173W in the Pacific. The witness, identified only as military, reported the object had the intensity of a second-magnitude star and was observed for 10 minutes, descending into the horizon. The official conclusion for this specific incident was 'Insufficient Data for Evaluation' due to the incomplete nature of the description. The file also includes a staff message from the Hawaii Air Defense Division, dated November 30, 1961, confirming the report and noting that altitude and speed were unknown. Beyond this primary case, the document provides a summary list of sightings from December 1961, categorizing various reports as satellites, meteors, aircraft, or insufficient data. Additionally, the collection contains several press clippings and information-only reports regarding other sightings in November 1961, including an 'angel hair' incident in Chadron, Nebraska, a sighting near Poplar Grove, Illinois, a metallic object in Baltimore, Maryland, and a saucer photograph taken in Lihue, Hawaii, by Masa Arita. The document also includes an astronomy article from Science News Letter, dated October 28, 1961, which provides context on celestial bodies and meteor showers, likely used by investigators to help filter out astronomical phenomena from reported UFO sightings.