Project 10073 Record Card and Investigation Report — Grand Ledge, Michigan, June 1964

This document contains the investigation file for a UFO sighting reported in Grand Ledge, Michigan, on June 13, 1964. Two teenage girls reported seeing a large, glowing white light that filled the road while they were driving at approximately 2215 hours. The object appeared to be stationary, then dimmed and brightened before disappearing. The investigation, conducted by TSgt David N. Moody and Bill Powers, included interviews with the witnesses, their parents, and other individuals in the area who had reported similar phenomena. The investigators visited the scene and noted the presence of a marshy area with vegetation, which they theorized could produce ground fog. The official conclusion reached by the Air Force investigators was that the sighting was a reflection of the witnesses' car headlights on a patch of ground fog. The report includes detailed correspondence, weather data from the Lansing airport, and sketches made by the investigator and witnesses to illustrate the sighting. The investigators also contacted the FAA and local airports to rule out aircraft activity, finding no turbo-prop aircraft in the area at the time of the sighting. The report emphasizes that the witnesses were frightened and believed their account to be true, but the investigators maintained that the physical evidence and environmental conditions supported the fog reflection theory.