Project 10073 Record: Osterville, Mass Sighting

On April 10, 1966, at approximately 2345Z, a civilian witness named Aaron Hobart observed an unidentified object while on a beach one mile from Osterville, Massachusetts. The witness described the object as rectangular, measuring two feet in length and one and a half feet in width, with two blue-white lights on the front. The object appeared opaque and traveled along a level flight path, moving from 20 degrees elevation in the north to 20 degrees elevation in the south over a duration of five seconds. No sound was reported during the observation. The weather conditions were noted as having good visibility with high scattered clouds at 4,500 feet. An investigating officer initially considered the possibility that the object was the exhaust glow from a low-flying aircraft, noting that the area is heavily traversed by both military and civilian traffic. However, due to the brevity of the sighting, the high speed of the object, and the absence of sound, the final conclusion reached was that the object was a meteor.