Project 10073 Record Card — Pennsylvania, December 1953

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and associated correspondence regarding a sighting in Pennsylvania on December 7, 1953. The record card classifies the event as a meteor sighting, explicitly noting that it is not a UFO report. The correspondence includes a letter from the Flower and Cook Observatory at the University of Pennsylvania, written on behalf of the American Meteor Society, requesting information from the Air Force regarding two brilliant fireballs reported over Pennsylvania on November 27 and December 7, 1953, to assist in computing their orbits. Major Maston M. Jacks of the USAF Public Information Division responded on December 16, 1953, stating that the Foreign Technology Division had not received any reports on these specific phenomena at that time. Major Jacks further offered to forward any reports that might reach their office in the future and mentioned that the Foreign Technology Division possessed reports regarding a fireball sighting in the Phoenix, Arizona area on November 19th, which they offered to share with the American Meteor Society.