UFO Sighting Report — Cambridge, Massachusetts, 26 May 1964

This document collection details the investigation of a UFO sighting reported by P. Wankowicz on May 26, 1964, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The witness, a writer-evaluator at the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT, observed a strange elliptical object while in a parking lot near a Sears & Roebuck store. Wankowicz, a former RAF pilot and satellite tracker for the Smithsonian/NASA program, provided a detailed account of the object, describing it as a thin, metallic, white ellipsoid that moved in a straight trajectory above the cumulus clouds for approximately three to four seconds. He explicitly noted the absence of noise, contrails, or erratic movement, and dismissed initial thoughts that it might be a bird or a plate in a thermal. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an Air Force consultant, interviewed the witness and vouched for his reliability, noting that the witness was trained in tracking objects and was not prone to excitability. The Air Force's Foreign Technology Division (FTD) processed the report, forwarding it to Dr. Hynek for evaluation after they were unable to determine the cause of the sighting. Despite the witness's credentials and the detailed nature of his report, the official conclusion remained 'UNIDENTIFIED.' The correspondence includes internal routing slips, letters between the FTD and Dr. Hynek, and the witness's own detailed notes regarding the sighting conditions, the object's appearance, and his own qualifications as an observer.