Project 10073 Record Card — Worcester, Massachusetts, 20 December 1962

On the night of December 20, 1962, at approximately 2215Z, a 19-year-old student from Wheelock College observed two unidentified objects while located two miles southeast of the Worcester, Massachusetts airport. The witness, who was noted as having an interest in astronomy, described the objects as round and orange-yellowish in color. The objects were observed traveling side-by-side at a 15-degree elevation in the northwest, eventually fading after 10 to 15 minutes while moving toward the north-northeast. The witness reported that the objects appeared to rotate around each other. The official investigation, conducted by SSGT Harold Sessions of the 99th Bomb Wing at Westover AFB, determined that there was insufficient data to reach a definitive conclusion. While the flight path and maneuvers were noted as potentially consistent with helicopter flight, the report explicitly stated that no helicopters were in the area at the time of the sighting. The airport reported no other air traffic during the incident. The final assessment suggested the objects could have been an aircraft or a balloon, though no concrete evidence was found to confirm either theory.