Project 10073 Record Card and Associated Reports — October 1958

This document consists of a collection of military teletype reports and a Project 10073 record card documenting a sighting of an unidentified aerial object on October 25, 1958. The primary report originated from the 746th ACWRON at Oklahoma City Air Station and details a sighting by a civilian couple, aged 65, who observed a fast-moving, high-altitude light traveling from the southwest to the northeast. The witnesses described the object as appearing like a star, the size of a pinhead, with a steady white light that blinked on and off at five-second intervals. They reported no sound and no tail or trail. The witnesses contacted authorities because they suspected the object might be a satellite. A separate report in the file references a DC-6B Clipper aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico, which also reported a similar object. The official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 card is that the object was determined to be a Sputnik rocket. The documentation includes various routing information to military commands, including the Air Technical Intelligence Center and the Air Defense Command, and provides meteorological data for the Oklahoma City sector at the time of the sighting.