Project 10073 Record Card and Correspondence — Nantucket Point, New York, January 1963

This document collection contains a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding a UFO sighting reported on January 5, 1963, at Nantucket Point, Long Island, New York. The primary witness, an employee of the Long Island Rail Road, reported observing a round, shiny metallic object hovering at approximately 1,000 feet for about an hour during his night shift. He described the object as having a bright blue light on top and performing maneuvers, including turns and flips, at high speeds. The witness noted that the object appeared to watch him and later hovered over a nearby Republic Aerospace facility when a guard arrived. The object eventually departed toward the west after skirting a jet aircraft. The official Air Force conclusion, documented on the record card, attributed the sighting to an astronomical object, specifically a star or planet, whose appearance was distorted by atmospheric conditions. The correspondence includes a letter from an Air Force officer at Wright-Patterson AFB to Lt. Colonel Robert Friend, discussing the formation of a committee of graduate students at Northwestern University to reevaluate 1963 sightings and mentioning the specific case from January 1963 as one where there was a difference in opinion regarding the cause.