Project 10073 Record Card and Correspondence regarding Wickliffe, Ohio Sighting

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and a letter of inquiry dated September 25, 1962, from a resident of Wickliffe, Ohio. The resident wrote to the Department of the Air Force seeking information regarding UFO sightings allegedly caused by the re-entry of the Russian Sputnik IV satellite. The correspondent specifically inquired whether the re-entry occurred over several days or all at once, noting that a local Montville Township Fire Chief had observed a cone-shaped object disintegrating in the sky the night after the reported re-entry. The correspondent mentioned that reports of this object had come in from surrounding towns, though no physical evidence was recovered. The official record card for Project 10073 summarizes the incident, noting that the object was observed on the night of September 6, 1962. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Aerospace Studies Institute, was that there was no satellite decay for that period. Based on the general description provided by the witness, the event was classified as a bolide (meteor) sighting.