Project 10073 Record Card — Houston, Texas, 14 June 1963

On June 14, 1963, at approximately 9:57 p.m., Arthur L. Forbes, a 35-year-old civil engineer and attorney, observed an unidentified object while at the Addicks Dam near Houston, Texas. Accompanied by his wife, Forbes reported seeing a star-like object positioned ten degrees below Polaris. The object moved from south of Polaris toward the northeast, appearing to stop twice during its transit. Forbes noted that the object's intensity fluctuated and that it moved rapidly, though slower than a meteor. He explicitly stated in his report that the object was neither an airplane nor a shooting star. The sighting was reported to Major Kolenda of the OSI Detachment 1004 at Ellington Air Force Base. The 2578th Air Base Squadron subsequently forwarded the report to the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for evaluation. The official conclusion reached by the Air Force was that the object was the satellite ECHO I, which had passed north of Houston at 30 degrees elevation at 15/0346Z. This conclusion was communicated to Mr. Forbes by Major Maston M. Jacks on September 16, 1963.