Project 073 Record: Physical Specimen Analysis - Islamorada, Florida

This document details the laboratory analysis of a physical specimen recovered in Islamorada, Florida, following an incident on August 25, 1967, where a young boy was allegedly struck by an object. The parents of the boy suspected the object might be satellite debris, a UFO, or a meteorite. The item was forwarded to the Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for identification. The laboratory conducted an emission spectrographic analysis and a carbon analysis on the 'cinder-like' material. The results indicated a composition of 94% carbon, along with trace amounts of silicon, iron, calcium, aluminum, magnesium, sodium, titanium, lead, chromium, manganese, and boron. Based on these findings, the material was officially identified as coke. Colonel James C. Manatt, Director of Technology and Subsystems, concluded that there was no evidence the specimen originated from extraterrestrial sources. The file notes that the incident was not originally submitted as a formal UFO report, but rather as a request for material analysis, and that local news media had expressed interest in the event.