Project 10073 Record Card and Air Intelligence Information Report — Lake Charles, Louisiana, 29 August 1952

This document consists of a series of reports, including a Project 10073 Record Card and an Air Intelligence Information Report (IR-133-52), detailing a UFO sighting that occurred on 29 August 1952 near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Two witnesses, driving north in their car at approximately 1920 hours, observed an elliptical object with two bright white lights. The object hovered for approximately three seconds before accelerating rapidly to the east at an estimated speed of 1000 mph. Approximately five seconds later, the witnesses observed a bright red light moving along the same path at a similar speed. A second sighting occurred at approximately 1930 hours by a witness in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, who observed an object of similar description drifting slowly toward a patch of trees, casting a powerful beam of light. The witness reported that the object appeared to land. The investigation by the 806th Air Division noted that there was no aerodynamic structure, exhaust, or sound associated with the object. A check with the Lake Charles Weather Bureau regarding weather balloon launches was conducted, but the intelligence report explicitly states that the headquarters concluded these sightings were not balloons. The report highlights a significant administrative failure in the documentation process, noting that the times of the sightings were not recorded in a standardized format (Z, CDT, or CST), which rendered a definitive balloon analysis impossible. The document includes internal correspondence from the Strategic Air Command forwarding these reports to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.