Project 10073 Record Card and Related Correspondence — Baltimore, Maryland, August 1952

This document contains a collection of reports and correspondence regarding an Unconventional Flying Object (FLYOBRPT) sighting on the night of August 22, 1952, in Baltimore, Maryland. The primary report was submitted by Lewis W. Barth, a civilian volunteer with the Ground Observer Corps, who observed a brilliant, round, white light at approximately 11:00 P.M. The object, described as being the size of an automobile headlight, remained motionless for about one minute before suddenly disappearing. Four observers were present at the time. The report notes that no sound was heard, and the weather conditions were clear. The 647th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, based in Manassas, Virginia, processed the report and forwarded it to the Director of Intelligence at USAF Headquarters. The documentation includes internal correspondence between the 647th AC&W Squadron and the 26th Air Division (Defense) regarding the proper formatting and submission of the report in compliance with Air Force Letter 200-5. The evaluation by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) suggests that the observer may have been mistaken about the time of the sighting and that the object could have been a balloon from one of the numerous launch sites in the area. The file also contains later correspondence from 1958 between a documentary filmmaker and Major Lawrence J. Tacker of the Air Force, in which the filmmaker inquires about gun-camera footage from Wright-Patterson AFB, which the Air Force denies having records of.