Project 10073 Record Card — Tupper Lake, N.Y., Fall 1963

This document file details the investigation of a photographic sighting reported in Tupper Lake, New York, during the fall of 1963. A private citizen submitted a photograph and its negative to the U.S. Air Force for evaluation, believing they had captured an unusual formation in the sky on a cloudless day. The witness had previously sent the materials to LIFE magazine, which returned them and suggested contacting the Air Force. The Air Force's Foreign Technology Division (FTD) conducted a formal photo analysis under work request 64-34. The analysis concluded that the photograph contained two distinct images. The first, a light streak, was determined to be the result of a physical crease in the negative. The second, a hazy form, was deemed unidentified, though investigators suggested it could be an unusual cloud formation, a weather phenomenon, or distorted wind-blown vapor contrails. The report explicitly states that these explanations are only possibilities. The materials were subsequently returned to the witness. The file includes correspondence between the witness, the Air Force, and LIFE magazine, as well as the official Photo Analysis Report dated April 28, 1964, signed by William A. Marr, Jr. and William L. Turner.