Project 10073 Record — Silver Springs, Maryland, 16 April 1967

This document is a Project 10073 record detailing a UFO sighting that occurred on April 16, 1967, in Silver Springs, Maryland. The report consists of a standard U.S. Air Force technical information questionnaire completed by a single civilian witness. The witness observed a single white object for a duration of six minutes, describing its movement as a straight-line path in a North East-North direction. The witness estimated the object's speed to be between Mach 1 and Mach 2 and noted that it appeared as a light in the sky. The observation took place outdoors under clear, dry weather conditions. The witness reported no sound associated with the object and indicated that they did not have any physical evidence or photographs of the event. A notable aspect of the report is the witness's background; the investigating officer, Lt. E. Balzer, noted that the reporting individual claimed to work in a sensitive area for the National Security Agency (NSA) and explicitly declined to provide full identification due to a fear of recriminations regarding the sighting. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency, the Foreign Technology Division (FTD), was that there was insufficient data for a formal evaluation of the incident.