Project 10073 Record: UFO Observation, 10 December 1967

This document contains a Project Blue Book sighting report from 10 December 1967, involving a civilian witness, Steven Ellis, in Valley Station, Kentucky. The witness, a 17-year-old student with an interest in military aircraft, reported observing a self-luminous, white, point-like object with fuzzy edges for approximately two and a half minutes. He described the object as moving in an erratic, spiraling flight pattern before accelerating directly away from his position at a 60-degree angle of elevation. The sighting occurred at a drive-in theatre under completely overcast conditions with light rain. The witness attempted to verify the object with the local traffic control tower at Standiford Field, which reported no radar contacts and no weather balloons launched at that time. The Air Force subsequently concluded the object was a weather balloon. The witness strongly contested this finding, performing his own analysis using a map, compass, and protractor, and obtaining wind data from the local Weather Bureau. He argued that the wind direction at the time would have carried any weather balloon in the opposite direction of the object's observed path. The file includes correspondence from the Foreign Technology Division requesting the witness complete the formal questionnaire, as well as internal requests for weather data to evaluate the report.