Project 10073 Record Card — Noroton, Connecticut, October 5, 1958

This document details a UFO sighting report filed by a physicist and head lecturer at the Edgerton Memorial Planetarium in Noroton, Connecticut. On October 5, 1958, at approximately 9:30 P.M., the witness was observing the double cluster in Perseus using 7x50 binoculars when he observed a rapidly moving, faintly luminous object. He described the object as a solid, light gray, boomerang-shaped or parabolic crescent, approximately 100 feet across the tips and 25 feet thick. He estimated its speed at one mach and its altitude between one statute and one nautical mile. The object moved in a straight line from NNE to SSW before disappearing behind his house. The witness reported the event to the Civil Air Patrol, which forwarded the report to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC). The ATIC conducted an evaluation and concluded that the witness had observed a meteor of uncommon brightness. They suggested that the 'horn' shape was likely a spark trail near the meteor head and that the witness's limited experience in astronomy, combined with the surprise of the event and the short duration of the observation, led to the misidentification. The official conclusion remained that the object was a meteor.