Project 10073 Record Card — West Manchester, Ohio, April 1962

This document is a Project 10073 record card detailing a sighting and subsequent physical evidence recovery in West Manchester, Ohio, in April 1962. A civilian witness reported observing a glowing red object in the sky at approximately 2130 hours. The witness claimed the object remained at an altitude of 100 to 200 feet before falling to the ground. The witness recovered the object within minutes, noting that it was still hot and the center portion was glowing red. The witness believed the object to be a meteorite and stored it in a garage until the decay of Sputnik IV made news, at which point the object was submitted for evaluation. Upon examination, the investigating agency determined that the object was not a meteor. The analysis concluded that the specimen consisted of ordinary granite with no evidence of heat exposure, indicating it was of terrestrial origin. The official conclusion of the project was that the sighting was an obvious hoax. The physical specimen, associated with artifact number 341-16-480, was noted to have been broken after falling from a desk, and the faint spots on the object were attributed to its storage conditions since discovery.