Project 10073 Record Card and Related Correspondence

This document collection contains records related to UAP sightings in May and June 1962. The primary record is a Project 10073 card detailing a sighting on 2 June 1962 in Southwest Canada. A single witness, described as having very good reliability, observed a silver, basketball-sized object through 10x50 binoculars for four minutes. The object was moving south at an altitude of approximately one mile. Despite the witness's observation that the object resembled a weather balloon, the investigation noted that the object was traveling contrary to the prevailing winds, and no radar returns were detected. The file also includes teletype messages regarding other reports. One message from 25 May 1962 clarifies that a previously reported UFO was actually a balloon released from Holloman Air Force Base. Another report from 28 May 1962 describes a large, multi-colored object seen by many people in the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada. This object was described as having a burning tail and falling pieces, but the investigation at Fairchild AFB ceased after Dr. R. M. Tepettre of the Dominion Astr-Physical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, identified the object as an extremely large meteorite.