Project 10073 Record Card — Ocean Springs, Mississippi, 29 July 1962

This document contains a Project 10073 record card and supporting correspondence regarding an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sighting in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 29, 1962. The primary witness, a civilian employee of the Ocean Springs Seafood Co., reported observing a large, diamond-shaped, bright cherry-red object while in bed. The witness was alerted by his nine-year-old daughter and fifteen-year-old niece. The object was described as performing intricate, erratic maneuvers, including half-loops and a square-wave flight pattern, while moving from right to left at tree-top level. The object was reported to be silent and to vary in intensity as it maneuvered. The sighting lasted approximately ten minutes. The witness and his wife also reported having seen other anomalous objects in the past, including an orange object moving at high speed and two moon-like objects in February 1962. Capt. Charles O. Williams of the Keesler Technical Training Center investigated the incident, measuring the site and interviewing the witnesses. He concluded that he could not determine a cause for the sighting, noting that the moon had not risen and there were no aircraft, balloons, or temperature inversions present at the time. The document includes extensive meteorological data in the form of adiabatic charts from the nearby Burrwood, Louisiana weather station, provided to the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB to assist in the evaluation.