Project 10073 Record Card and Related Correspondence — Southern Pines, N.C., September 1952

This document contains a collection of records related to a sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon in Southern Pines, North Carolina, on September 29, 1952. The primary report details an observation made by three civilians, including a Reserve First Lieutenant and his wife, at 2015 hours. The witnesses described a green, elliptical light with a tail that hovered and orbited in a counter-clockwise circular path for approximately 15 minutes. The object was noted to be moving at a very high speed. The report includes a Project 10073 record card, a worksheet, and a teletype message confirming the details of the sighting. Intelligence comments within the file note that the observer was considered reliable. The document also includes unrelated materials, such as a Hydrographic Bulletin report of a meteor sighting by the S.S. Union Sulphur on September 29, 1952, and a summary list of sightings from October 1-15, 1952, which categorizes various events as balloons, aircraft, or astronomical phenomena. Additionally, there is a separate report of a sighting in Washington, D.C., on August 8, 1952, and an account of two saucer sightings in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1952.