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Project 10073 Record Card — Syracuse, New York, August 1963

📅 August 1963 📍 Syracuse, New York 🏛 Air Technical Intelligence Center 📄 sighting_report
Project 10073SyracuseAir Defense CommandEugene Martin Zuckertaircraft sighting

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A civilian report of three blinking lights in Syracuse, New York, was investigated by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. The Air Force concluded the objects were aircraft, citing a lack of corroborating radar data from the Air Defense Command.

This document consists of a Project 10073 Record Card and a corresponding letter dated October 24, 1963, addressed to General Eugene Martin Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force. The correspondence was sent by a civilian witness from West Des Moines, Iowa, who reported observing three strange, blinking objects while visiting Syracuse, New York, in August 1963. The witness, who describes themselves as a curious fifth-grader interested in UFOs, stated that the objects crossed the path of an airplane. The witness and their family reported the incident to the Air Defense Command (ADC) at the time. The official Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) record card concludes that the incident was not a UFO sighting. The evaluation notes that there was no report from the ADC regarding any UFO, and because the objects exhibited flight characteristics consistent with an aircraft, the case was classified as an aircraft sighting. The investigator noted that nothing in the report conflicted with this analysis.

Since object presented flight characteristics of a/c and no UFO report received case considered to be an a/c sighting.

Official Assessment

No report from ADC of any UFO. Since object presented flight characteristics of a/c and no UFO report received case considered to be an a/c sighting. Nothing presented conflicts with this analysis.

The sighting was determined to be an aircraft (a/c) because the objects exhibited flight characteristics consistent with aircraft and no corroborating UFO reports were received from the Air Defense Command.

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