Project 10073 Record — Scarsdale, New York, 6 Jan 67

On January 6, 1967, at 2240Z, a 13-year-old civilian observer in Scarsdale, New York, reported a sighting of an unidentified aerial object. The observer described the object as long, thin, and cigar-shaped, with three or four arm-like protrusions extending from the front. The object was bright, silvery-white in color, and its apparent size varied during the observation, reaching the size of a penny held at arm's length at its largest. The object moved in a smooth arc until it was directly overhead, then moved downward toward the surface, then straight up until it appeared as a small star, before moving toward the western sky. The observation lasted between two and three minutes. The weather was reported as very clear with little to no wind. The investigating officer, Captain Henry I. Pierce of the USAF, noted that the location was near New York City air traffic and the Westchester County Airport. While the investigator suggested that the vertical movement could indicate a helicopter and that the protrusions might have been the result of moonlight reflecting off rotor blades, he ultimately concluded that there was insufficient information to definitively identify the object or rule out other possibilities.