Project 10073 Record Card — Norton, Connecticut, 27 October 1962

On October 27, 1962, an observer at the Edgerton Memorial Planetarium in Stamford, Connecticut, reported a sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The witness, who was actively monitoring the transit of the satellite 1960 Iota 1 (Echo 1) at approximately 7:44 E.S.T., observed a faint, persisting object moving in a southeasterly direction. The object descended from an altitude of 45 degrees to 20 degrees over a duration of three seconds before disappearing behind trees. Using 7x50 binoculars, the observer described the object as a band approximately 0.1 degrees wide and 0.5 degrees long, with the greatest brightness in the center third and fading toward the ends. The length of the band was oriented parallel to the line of flight. The observer explicitly noted that the sky was clear and that the object did not resemble a searchlight beam. The official record card for Project 10073 classifies the event as having insufficient data for evaluation, while noting the possibility that it was a faint meteor, despite the observer's professional background in astronomy.