Project 10073 Record — Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 1965

This document collection details a UFO sighting report from Fayetteville, Arkansas, occurring in September 1965. An unnamed observer, while attempting to photograph a satellite crossing, captured images of a round, black object featuring a definitive halo of light and a short halo tail. Notably, the observer reported that the object was not visible at the time the photographs were taken. A second photograph captured the same object, though it appeared smaller. The incident was recorded under Project 10073 within the Air Force's Project Blue Book. The official conclusion reached by the Foreign Technology Division was that there was insufficient data for evaluation, pending the receipt of negatives and a completed Form 164. The correspondence included in the file shows communication between the Air Force and the observer, with the Air Force requesting the original negatives for analysis and promising to keep the observer's identity and the results of the analysis in confidence. The observer also mentioned in a letter dated October 20, 1965, that they had previously witnessed a UFO in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 and had observed strange phenomena through a telescope, which they speculated might be a fluke reflection or a nebula.